Well, I've realized that people really can be just that stupid and just that petty. We'll address stupidity first. This lady decides to purchase a car, but in order to do so, she is required to have a co-signer. In steps her dudefeller with his magic co-signing ability. Blah blah blah. Relationship goes down the drain and he drives off into the sunset (Well, really, it was more like a couple of blocks or so away, but sunset sounds better!) in good Ol' Bessie. Ms. Lady Ma'am reports Bessie as stolen. The officer assigned to the case proceeds down the various legal channels of investigation and whatnot to discover that the individual who was reported to have stolen the vehicle is none other than Magic Co-signing Ability Man. Sportin' his handy dandy official policeman uniform, he explains to Ms. Lady Ma'am that he cannot make an arrest and he cannot force Magic Co-signing Ability Man to relinquish possession of Ol' Bessie. Blah blah blah. Ms. Lady Ma'am calls my other dispatcher, chews her out, threatens to sue, and slams the phone down! A few hours later, she calls me. She tried the same stunt with me, but I'm super good at de-escalating silly situations. At the end of the call, she was about two shades of happy. The next day, she gets mad all over again (she saw Magic Co-signing Ability Man driving Ol' Bessie down the street. End result? She storms up, verbally harasses several officers, and tries to make a false report (she advised that her car was just stolen out of the parking lot), but I called her on it. She was "good and mad" with me. Now, she's good and on the run in the pursuit of justice...
It has come to my attention that some of the girls have started making catty remarks about me being on such good terms with the officers. Mind you, they conveniently overlook the fact that I'm on the same good terms with the female officers (most of the ladies are in the corrections or investigations-we're talking forensics and all that jolly good stuff, but they're still my officers. It baffles me that these same girls who flirt with various officers make these remarks because I smile at the officers and they smile back. Oh! And let's not forget that we box and exercise at the gym together some. I guess they have this idea that when we're smiling, we're smiling because we ripped our clothes forcefully from our respective bodies and engaged in passionately wild sex.
