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Woman is walking into a store and suddenly her infant that she’s carrying in her arms starts hollering and crying. Because a
rock hit his head. Not thrown by a person; it was a stupid seagull flying overhead that dropped it. Bird thought was hoping it
was a clam to break open when dropped from a height. Bird was wrong. So I guess you can add to your list of random things to
worry about: Seagulls dropping rocks on yo head.

Me, at an air ambulance landing zone in a large field; somebody is getting a medical airlift for some kind of traumatic injury; I
can’t remember what exactly. I do remember it was a hot August; very dry. The patient is loaded in, the engine starts, the rotors
turn, n and the helicopter slowly lifts, kicking up a huge swirling mess of dried grass and dust. I’m smart enough to stand behind
a large firetruck so I don’t get hit with all the debris stirred up by the rotors, but not smart enough to notice until too late that I
had kept all of my nearby patrol vehicle windows all the way open.

A school teacher at a church’s private school calls 911 one day after class. I show up. She explains she feels like her super crazy
ex-boyfriend, the Super Stalker, has maybe found out where’s she moved to for like the third time and where she’s working now,
and he paid his friend to drive up to the church and talk to the woman for bit, which freaked her out like you can’t imagine.
Memorable for me because of the way the woman was talking to me; it led me to believe that she was desperately looking for a
nice police officer man, like the one standing in front of her, to go way above and beyond and take a great interest in her case
and really look out for her. I’m pretty sure she was really hoping that I would fall for her and choose to be her rescuer, and she
could get my cell phone number and I’d be agreeable to stopping by her house at any time on or off duty to keep her safe from
her Super Stalker. Even if had been single I would never in a million years consider that as a tempting option. I’m pretty sure
any guy she snagged would have to deal with a massive amount of drama with the Super Stalker; the two of them were still very
much a package deal. I pretty much got away from her as quick as I could. That was not the first time something like that
happened to me. Or the last.

Old guy in his 80’s had a clogged toilet in his basement. Plumber came out and said it was the outside line that needed to be
dug up; it was a very old pipe and had failed. Old guy looked at the bill and said “fuck that” and got to digging himself. It was a
very hot summer day and he was not able to finish the job; he had a heart attack and died. We could see where he had dropped
his shovel, went for but then dropped his cigarettes and lighter, and then died on the way to the phone in his kitchen. Faithful
dog by his side. He should have just paid that have that trench dug. The history with the cigarettes didn’t help either.