A Day At My Office

I work in an office of twenty-two people between the ages of 18-64 years old. It is hard to put yourself at YOUR age because you are never really sure how you should be acting. We all get along with each other for the most part. One of the girls just celebrated her 41st birthday. She is a wife and mother of three but doesn't feel 'that old'. She said she feels like she is in her 20's.
I sit next to a 23 year old guy and across from a 64 year old woman. Suzanne will retire this year and wants to spend it playing with her grandchildren and running around the yard with them. Grandmas don't run-do they?! John is our 'token' male. The only one we have in the office. He says there are days he likes it because he gets answers to alot of questions about 'females' he wanted to know. But, somedays there are things he DOESN'T want to know.
Today we used John as our test subject. Avon has a cologne for men called 'DRIVEN' which smelled pretty bad on the sample card. But, he decided it would smell better on him with his added pheramones (sp). So he wiped the card all over him and they told us to 'smell' him. HAHA
You know-he was RIGHT. I could definitely think of a few other guys, perhaps in Branson, that I would like to hear them tell me 'smell me'. But, that is a whole other blog. LOL
One of my supervisors had rotar cuff surgery (hope that is right) today with a few extra repairs and will be out for some time. She doled out her work to us and then called in today to add some to my list. There are days I don't like being efficient enough to have more work added to the pile. Before she left I told her 'you're going to owe us BIG TIME when you get healed-maybe some fudge.' ha She makes the best fudge in the WORLD!!
We had a Blizzard storm warning and my duty is to listen to my radio and inform all the parents which schools are letting out early and update everyone on the weather. We had a few leave because they live pretty far out of town. I live in town so NO DICE-I was stuck there.
I have taken Jason's story to work so they can read it. They asked 'so when are we going to meet this writer friend of yours. He seems like he would be fun.' I told them at least not until Summer because he lives in Texas and would be a 'WINTER WOOSE' and freeze coming here now. Then I called him and told him the same thing. haha Several people in the office have told me MY friends seem more interesting than theirs. But, most of my friends are out of the state so they seem more mysterious and fun to them.
Kelly got a call from a patient and was told WE were incompetent because her insurance was filed incorrectly. She didn't seem to feel it was her fault that it was wrong. Even though she got THREE statements and never called us to fix the problem. She said we could turn her over to the collection agency and no one was going to get anything out of her. We laughed when she hung up. For every ONE like her we get TWO or so that make us laugh with them. Another lady called us and told me she had Medicare primary and her husband's insurance secondary. The insurances think she is not old enough because her husband doesn't have it. She said they have been married for over 45 years and she is 19 years OLDER than him. She said she got her man way before Hollywood thought is was fashionable. LOL We LOVED her call and laughed the rest of the day about it.
There are days that I really want another job. I like being with the people but I want to do something I know I am good at and would enjoy ALOT more. Maybe someday this will happen. Until then I just continue with the daily adventures of the Lab.