Story Behind Ode To A Slow Night
I was working Accident Investigation (ACCI) with my partner Les Reidy
on graveyard shift. One of the things we had to do in the whole Traffic
Division was to submit a daily activity sheet, detailing everything we
had done that shift. Well this particular night was absolutely dead quiet
so we didn't do much that night. Les had come to work with a minor case
of blood poisoning which got progressively worse throughout the shift.
We finally went into the emergency ward and had him fixed up and sent home.
While he was undergoing repairs, I did up our nightly duty sheet and just
for fun, did it up with this rhyme. Now this is an official police document
and after submitting it I got a little worried that it might cause some
problems. Turns out, it didn't and in fact I got compliments from my Sergeant
and Inspector, and looking back on it now I guess this launched my career
as the departmental poet.
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