I'm just a phone call away

Wow, does the editor of a newspaper ever receive some stupid calls.

Idiot #1
We ran a 100-word story about how the crime stats in the Battlefords were lower than normal during the month of May. It was in the back section of the paper and was more for filler than anything.

Well this guy had his truck vandalized. If he was struck, crime must be up everywhere. He complained about the crime spree going on, a gang of 12-year-olds and mentioned that in the past year he knew of three other people who were victims of crime.

He bitched for about ten mintues before I asked him his name, which he wasn’t willing to give.

#2
This was a nice old lady. I’ve met her before. She was upset that we didn’t run a picture of her granddaughter winning a sports award. I tired to tell her, if we ran that one we should run them all and that would mean 56 pictures.

She also went off about how we put more pictures in the paper of the other two high school awards, which I told her that we hadn’t because they were going into the next pape and haven’t been in the paper yet.

Anyway, life is hectic but going good. It always helps to have an afterwork beer.