The world is full of crazy people!

I went to work last night, in a good mood, cause it's my friday!!! Works been slow this month, I guess May is always a slow month. Get lots of reading done, which is fine by me. Get paid to read, how cool is that? Tonight my first call is a man who seems very rational, calm, sincere and friendly even. His first words where, "Finally a human voice". Since I have called into my work many times, I know what a relief it can be to finally get that human voice. (God I hate computers answering phones!)

His second comment was politely asking me the time, which I told him it was 11:55pm. I forgot our clocks are 5 minutes fast. He said I was close, it was 11:50. I am thinking, why did you ask if you already knew? He then precedes to tell me in the calmest manner possible with no swear words or expressions of anger that Homeland Security will be descending on my company in 11 hours. He just wanted to let me know so that an innocent such as myself wouldn't get caught up in what was going to happen. He preceded to tell me that we needed to warn our drivers to stay off of private property or they would be taken out, and wouldn't that be a shame for their family and friends. He through in several alphabet agencies that were going to be shutting us down today, none of which made sense, like D.O.T or NTA, would have. He also said I had his name and number on caller ID and he knew that I knew who he was. Problem is, only his name came up on caller ID, so now our tech department has to try and trace the call. On a multi-line phone you really can't star 69 it.

After I told him I was transferring him to my boss he hung up. I am really use to phone calls making threats of all kinds. They are going to sue us, hurt us, hurt or equipment, our reputation and even a few threats on our lives. Those people all had one thing in common, they were angry and taking their anger out on me. I knew that none of those threats were something to be alarmed about. But the call last night, so calm, so rational had me concerned. Then when a SUV parked in our parking lot and it shouldn't have been there and no one was around I really started to worry. I suggested that even though I work for a towing company that we have our competitor come and tow it away. It was gone about 5 hours later. None of us saw it come in or go out.

I am happy to report that none of our drivers had any problems last night. The 11 hours are up soon and I am praying nothing happens. I am sure it won't. I am also praying that the person who called last night gets some mental help or something better to do with his time, because he needs it.

What a weird night!