I attract random WTF-ness

Lately I have been in a lot of situations where I have to stop and process whether what had just happened was reality, or if I had slipped into some alternate universe where really weird people are just the norm.

Just now, I answered a phone call at work that first made me stop to evaluate whether it was real or not and then got extremely angry when I realised it was as real as death and taxes.  You will need a bit of background to understand the level op WTF-ness that just happened here:  I work in  a Travel Agency in a small shopping centre, which is half empty anyways.  I know where the shops are that I need, like the video shop, Woolworths Food and my optometrist and I am vaguely aware of the other shops that I walk past on my way from the parking to my office, and that is about it.

The call I just answered at work was from a women who came to the dentist (really, there’s a dentist in this centre?) and she desperately needs to call them but doesn’t have the number and wants me to run downstairs and get the number for her!  She called a Travel Agency, to run around the centre looking for a telephone number of  another shop!

Is it just me or is this the most absurd thing?  Actually, now that I have written it down, I am starting to think this shit really did not just happen.  Do people really do stuff like this?

Pets First Aid

The other night I attended a first aid class for pets. It was presented by a veterinary nurse and it was really interesting. Besides the fact that I am now slightly paranoid about the things that might happen to my furry children, I am also much better prepared in case of an emergency, and honestly think its a good thing to do for anyone who has pets.

It was also strange for me to learn that I find the idea of having to stick a thermometer up my beloved puppy’s backside absolutely horrible, but will not hesitate to give her mouth to mouth (should she ever need it) which basically involves you having to stick her whole muzzle into your mouth and blow air through her nose. We were shown how to stop bleeding, clean wounds, how to set a broken leg until we can get to a vet along with a whole bunch of very useful information on how to deal with common pet-related emergencies.

We even experienced a serious WTF moment; Before the course started, the nurse introduced us all and in the group were 2 girls who work for a shelter rescuing cats. Then right in the beginning of the course, she told us never to give cats disprin as it’s poisonous for them. That’s when this one woman chirps up about how she puts food out laced with disprin to kill all the cats in the neighbourhood because they poo in her child’s sandbox. At first I thought I imagined it, but then I saw the look on the cat shelter ladies” faces. Can you believe some people? I mean, you come to a pet first aid course and then tell everyone how you try to kill the neighbourhood cats. Some people are seriously strange and disturbed.