Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:37 pm
BONUS ROUND: I've since learned from my father the following. Bear in mind I remember none of it. Not a single minute of it.
I wasn't getting the answers in the ER I wanted. You know, like when was I going home? So I got up to leave. I'm told 4 security guards begged to differ and a hell of fight ensued. A fight I lost...
So they put me back in the bed, complete with restraints this time. Highly recommended btw, given I only broke out of 2 of them. When I couldn't break the rest, I drew upon my corporate alter-ego's powers of persuasion. Somehow convinced them to loosen the others. Just another benefit of being one of The 3 Faces of Fear(tm).
Once they were distracted by the guy across from me (wanted back to Iraq, or he was going to pull the pin on the grenade he claimed was on him - understand why I wanted to leave now)? I made my move. Then got to the door.. only to find it was locked. Found a solution to that too: Kicked the door down and walked out of the hospital.
On my way out, I stopped a woman on her way in and said, "I need your cell phone". She gave it to me... and kept right on walkin'. So I called my parents and said "Great news, they just released me. You need to come get me - now".
They never came to get me. Instead, they called the hospital... who called the cops in my town and one other. Told them some whackjob just went MIA from the ER. Two security guards picked me up at the entrance where I was waiting, then took me to the psyche ward.
Explains the psyche ward thing now, yes?
I wasn't getting the answers in the ER I wanted. You know, like when was I going home? So I got up to leave. I'm told 4 security guards begged to differ and a hell of fight ensued. A fight I lost...
So they put me back in the bed, complete with restraints this time. Highly recommended btw, given I only broke out of 2 of them. When I couldn't break the rest, I drew upon my corporate alter-ego's powers of persuasion. Somehow convinced them to loosen the others. Just another benefit of being one of The 3 Faces of Fear(tm).
Once they were distracted by the guy across from me (wanted back to Iraq, or he was going to pull the pin on the grenade he claimed was on him - understand why I wanted to leave now)? I made my move. Then got to the door.. only to find it was locked. Found a solution to that too: Kicked the door down and walked out of the hospital.
On my way out, I stopped a woman on her way in and said, "I need your cell phone". She gave it to me... and kept right on walkin'. So I called my parents and said "Great news, they just released me. You need to come get me - now".
They never came to get me. Instead, they called the hospital... who called the cops in my town and one other. Told them some whackjob just went MIA from the ER. Two security guards picked me up at the entrance where I was waiting, then took me to the psyche ward.
Explains the psyche ward thing now, yes?