11. Why did you become a hospital manager?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Now THIS is a funny assed story......
So there I was, broke as a fuck, blank mind, no future, feeling sorry as fuck for myself.
The creditors were calling, they were visiting, they were writing, but you can't get blood out of a stone.
I told them I pay them, I told them I would not go bankrupt, that I woukd work my way out of the shit, they just had to give me time. ******
And I was tired, so fucking tired....
But then a Doctor friend and fully-paid-annually-in-advance medical insurance came to the rescue.
REHAB !!
A top notch facility for drug and alcohol dependence, 100% anonymous and 100% covered by my insurer.
The irony ?
I wasn't doing drugs OR even drinking much at the time ;-)
So of one of the times in my life that I LEAST require rehab, I marched through the door with my little bag of clothes and a dozen novels.
I had managed to mailinger inside there with a TV and cable and 3 awsome squares a day and a gym and pool for 11 weeks before the medical insurer started to make some loud noises.. so I had to do something.
Out came the national daily paper, and for the first time EVER, I look ed for a job in the Employment Section, preferably one a LONG way away.
2nd column, first page of the management section, "Hospital and Regional Health Services Manager", WAY the fuck in outback Australia.
Now I do not mean that pretend bullshit they showed you Yanks on "Survivor", I mean 500 miles FURTHER inland.
Middle of buttfuck nowhere. Dog ass of the earth.
Dust, mulga scrub and kangaroos..... millions of fucking kangaroos.
SO I applied.
They interviewed me on the phone, the phone at the Nurse's station of the rehab facility no less, and yes, they gave me the job.
2 weeks more on the insurers dime and I walked out the door, same bag packed, too a taxi to the airport and off I went.
Now this is the good part.
I arrive, they walk me around and give me orientation and shit and then they take me to my office to "settle in".
First 2 things they give me ?
Combination to the safe.....
and......
THE KEYS TO THE FUCKING PHARMACY !!!!!!
[i]*****FOOTNOTE: It has taken a LONG time, but there is like $20k left, and I only play them around because they used to hassle my mother. Piss me off I piss back ;-)