I was just thinking of a funny story, and thought I would share. It has been a good ten years since it happened, but I remember it well to this day.

When I was in college, I worked in the kitchen at the local hospital. Not a glamorous job by any means, but it was one of the most fun places I’ve ever worked. I had my sister-in-law to thank for the job, because she was the public relations manager there and talked to the kitchen manager for me.

I had been working there for a while, and we had to go to inservices every so often. They were a drag, but they weren’t terribly frequent. Then one day I started seeing fliers about how we were all going to be going on cruises or something. I was a bit confused, but just kind of shrugged it off because I knew it was too good to be true.

As it turned out, the “cruises” were actually a new series of required inservices. We had to go to one every week or two, and let me tell you they were BORING. Most of them had absolutely nothing to do with my job either, so that made me hate sitting through them that much more.

I went home from work after a particularly boring one, and a while later the phone rang. I answered, and it was my sis-in-law. She asked me how my day was at work, and I said, “It was okay, except I had to sit through another one of those boring inservices.” She proceeded to inform me that she was the one who had been in charge of the whole thing. Woopsie.

She didn’t let me live that down for a long time. But at least she was able to laugh about it. I still don’t see how she could not find those things utterly dull and pointless, though.