speedyshelly
speedyshelly's Friends
speedyshelly's Quiz Results
|
Right or Left? taken 13 days agoDemocrat |
michele
- Location:
- Henderson, NV
- Gender:
- Female
- Service:
- Dispatcher / Communications
- Status:
- Actively Serving
Personal
- About Me:
- Hi all, My name is Shelly . I am 38 .. I work at Nevada Highway Patrol In Las Vegas ... I have been dispatching here for 3 years just got a Promotion and now I am a dispatch supervisor .. I love it . I lived in pennsylvania before moving here and I worked as a 911 dispatcher at the monroe county 911 center in stroudsburg pa.. looking to meet some new friends on police link ..
my life as a dispatcher =¡?**You can carry on more than 4 conversations simultaneously!?
?**You have a bladder capacity of a tanker!?
**You can resume a conversation with co-workers 4 hours later, in mid-sentence and everyone knows that you are talking about!?
**You have a long term telephonic relationship with one or more ?paranoid schizophrenic PTSD suffering relatives of a public official.
**You have ever had to explain to a college educated, gainfully employed, tax paying property owner that: His/her child's lack of interest in vegetables was not a police matter!
**You have ever muttered the phrase: "They let him carry a GUN?"
**You find yourself typing "height" and "weight" instead of "width" and "height" when adding dimensions to the HTML "IMG SRC" tags on your web-site.
**You answer your home phone "9-1-1, what is your emergency?"
**You spend more on fast food than utilities.
**You see nothing wrong with eating a Taco Bell Grande Meal or pizza at 3 a.m
**You consider coffee an indispensable work tool.
**You answer your home phone "dispatch".
**You answer dispatch phone "hell" instead of "hello".
**The only thing that gets your adrenaline going is the walk to and from your car.
**You find humor in other people's misery.
**You're only happy if you have something to complain about.
**You consider patience a weakness ,not a virtue.
**Your idea of a good night involves someone burning a house down, getting shot, chased or dismembered.--->My guys have already told me that this was wrote for me!!!
**You have forgotten what it is like to actually eat a warm meal.
**Your dog doesn't recognize you and the kids think you're just the person who drops by every now and then to bring groceries and do the laundry.
**You think it's funny when a would-be suicide gets bored waiting for the gas from the stove to do it's thing and lights a cigarette to pass the time resulting in an explosion that leaves her neighbors homeless but she still survives.
**You truly believe stupidity should be painful.
**Dinner consist of a 2 liter bottle of soda and whatever you can scrounge out of the vending machine.
**Antacid tablets, or better known as dispatcher candy, become your regular desert.
**You read newspaper accounts of a major incident that occurred during your shift and can point out all the incorrect information...and then laugh about it.
**Family members comment about how nice you "used" to be before you started this job.
**You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac and/or birth control over certain parts of your city.
**You have no idea what a holiday is, other than it's the day when everyone gets drunk and beats up their family members.
**You get impatient listening to people relate a story - You want "just the facts".
**You believe 90% of people can't look up a telephone number.
**You get easily bored with happy content people.
**You can talk on the phone, listen to the radio and type request into the computer at the same time without missing anything.
**You think it is funny when a "regular client" kills himself while breaking into a business.
**You can give directions to any location in your city off the top of your head.
**You can relate a 10 minute story over a 2 hour time period, after many interruptions, without losing your place.
**You refuse to allow anyone to say "have a quiet shift".
*** thanks to the men and women on the road ** You wonder why he pulled you over and gave you a ticket for speeding,
He just worked an accident where people died because they were going too fast.
You wonder why that cop was so mean,
He just got done working a case where a drunk driver killed a kid.You work for 8 hours,
He works for up to 18 hours.
You drink hot coffee to stay awake,
The cold rain in the middle of the night keeps him awake.
You complain of a headache and call in sick,
He goes to work still hurt and sore from the guy he had a fight with the night before.
You drink coffee on your way to the mall,
He spills his as he runs code to a traffic crash with kids trapped inside.
You make sure your cell phone is in your pocket before you leave the house,
He makes sure his gun is clean and fully loaded and his vest in tight.
You talk trash about your buddies that aren’t with you,
He watches his buddy get shot at and wounded in front of him.
You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls,
He walks down the highway looking for body parts from a traffic crash.
You complain about how hot it is,
He wears fifty pounds of gear and a bullet proof vest in July and still runs around chasing crack heads.
You go out to lunch and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong,
He runs out before he gets his food to respond to an armed robbery.
You get out of bed in the morning and take your time getting ready,
He gets called out of bed at 2am after working 12 hours and has to be into work A.S.A.P. for a homicide.
You go to the mall to get your hair done,
He holds the hair of some college girl while she’s puking in the back of his patrol car.
You’re angry because your class ran 5 minutes over,
His shift ended 4 hours ago and there’s no end in sight.
You call your girlfriend and set a date for tonight,
He can’t make plans because on his off days he still gets called back into work.
You yell and scream at the squad car that just passed you because they slowed you down,
He’s in the driver seat of the squad car, going to cut someone out of their car.
You roll your eyes when a baby cries in public,
He picks up a dead child in his arms and prays that it was crying.
You criticize your police dept and say that they’re never there quick enough,
He blasts a siren while the person in front of him refuses to move while talking on their cell phone.
You hear jokes about fallen officers and say they should have known better,
He is a hero and runs into situations when everyone else is running away in order to make sure no one gets hurt and loses his life doing so.
You are asked to go to the store by your parents.
You don’t,
He would take a bullet for his buddy without permission.
You sit there and judge him saying that its waste of money to them around,
Yet as soon as you need help he is there. - Hobbies:
- Patch Collecting, Badge Collecting, Football, Martial Arts
speedyshelly's Activity
July 05
speedyshelly gave thumbs up to the post "How Does Your Center Answer 911?".
speedyshelly gave thumbs down to the post "How Does Your Center Answer 911?".
pdmama
about 16 hours ago
14 comments
4426
about 19 hours ago
531 comments
lexmotor633
about 23 hours ago
12 comments
Hoffa_45
2 days ago
512 comments
Wolvarine
2 days ago
2251 comments
Ling_Ling
6 days ago
114 comments
Ling_Ling
6 days ago
114 comments
Dutch101
7 days ago
113 comments
shield
9 days ago
121 comments
CampusCopAZ
9 days ago
241 comments
Robertson
9 days ago
18 comments
jroger
9 days ago
2454 comments
CAtrooper
14 days ago
637 comments
nordy
22 days ago
67 comments
luv_cops4life
22 days ago
610 comments