Friday, January 4, 2008

The Governor's Mom

The eastern slope of the "West Hills" are filled with nice homes and noted people. These people expect good service, quality paramedics, and clean ambulances. Well, when your ambulance covers downtown Portland and all of the intertwined communities, running 15 calls a day, you'll just have to settle for two our of three.

Short story: Shortly after transporting a not so clean, not too sober, and not at all affluent transient from downtown, we responded to the home of of the former governor's mom and transported her to the hospital.

I've always thought, "If she only knew where that blanket had been..."

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