Angie & Jim

Our Halloween Scare/Laughby Jim

Angie had a little scare this morning just before breakfast.  Because it is Halloween, some of the employees here are in costume, and the kind woman who brought Angie her breakfast was dressed as a police officer.  Angie hadn’t put on her glasses yet, so she didn’t notice anything strange at first.  The people who bring the food usually wear black, so she couldn’t tell there was anything different, except for the hat this woman was wearing.  Angie thought, “That’s funny, it kind of looks like a police officer’s cap.”  When the woman leaned over to put the food on the tray and Angie could see more clearly, she realized it was a police officer’s cap.  This startled her and she looked alarmed.  The poor woman saw Angie’s distress and after everything was explained, she kept apologizing for scaring her.  Our nurse was in at the time and he, too, was a bit confused.  He got a good laugh at it.  He said his first thought was, “Wait, is this patient a criminal?”  He said they get people here in the hospital sometimes that have to have a security detail stationed outside the room.

It made us all smile.