Question of the day - Thursday 23 July

[Winchester]

I worked a 7-day swing-shift at the paper plant for 18 years before I became a planner (I was a planner for 20 years). There were times when I didn't know what time it was or what day it was. I'd wake up at 6:00 and wonder if it was 6 in the morning or 6 at night, especially in the winter when it was dark all the time. One morning I got up, grabbed my shower, and went over to the bedroom for clothes. Rick awakened and said, "What are you doing?" I said, "I'm getting ready for work." He looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said, "Pam, it's Saturday. You're off work today! Come back to bed!" So I did. But really when you're working a swing-shift, there are days when you don't know what you're doing. It all rolls into one.

I'm not really a morning person or a night person. I just get up in the morning with the cats, usually around 6 now, and stay up. There are nights when I'm ready to crash at 8:00! Then there are nights when I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at midnight. And I will say that those mornings when it's Rick's turn to get up with the cats? Some of those mornings, I think, "Oh thank god!" and roll over and go back to sleep! That's definitely a good thing about being retired.

 

[klunick]

I worked a 7-day swing-shift at the paper plant for 18 years before I became a planner (I was a planner for 20 years). There were times when I didn't know what time it was or what day it was. I'd wake up at 6:00 and wonder if it was 6 in the morning or 6 at night, especially in the winter when it was dark all the time. One morning I got up, grabbed my shower, and went over to the bedroom for clothes. Rick awakened and said, "What are you doing?" I said, "I'm getting ready for work." He looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said, "Pam, it's Saturday. You're off work today! Come back to bed!" So I did. But really when you're working a swing-shift, there are days when you don't know what you're doing. It all rolls into one.

I'm not really a morning person or a night person. I just get up in the morning with the cats, usually around 6 now, and stay up. There are nights when I'm ready to crash at 8:00! Then there are nights when I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at midnight. And I will say that those mornings when it's Rick's turn to get up with the cats? Some of those mornings, I think, "Oh thank god!" and roll over and go back to sleep! That's definitely a good thing about being retired.

I have gotten up on a day off too, thinking I was late for work. I didn't have anyone to tell me I was an idiot so I got further along in the process than you before it hit me.

 

[NY cat man]

I worked a 7-day swing-shift at the paper plant for 18 years before I became a planner (I was a planner for 20 years). There were times when I didn't know what time it was or what day it was. I'd wake up at 6:00 and wonder if it was 6 in the morning or 6 at night, especially in the winter when it was dark all the time. One morning I got up, grabbed my shower, and went over to the bedroom for clothes. Rick awakened and said, "What are you doing?" I said, "I'm getting ready for work." He looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said, "Pam, it's Saturday. You're off work today! Come back to bed!" So I did. But really when you're working a swing-shift, there are days when you don't know what you're doing. It all rolls into one.

I'm not really a morning person or a night person. I just get up in the morning with the cats, usually around 6 now, and stay up. There are nights when I'm ready to crash at 8:00! Then there are nights when I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at midnight. And I will say that those mornings when it's Rick's turn to get up with the cats? Some of those mornings, I think, "Oh thank god!" and roll over and go back to sleep! That's definitely a good thing about being retired.

You didn't happen to work at the one on Rt219 in Johnsonburg, did you? Gawd, the smell of that place whenever we passed through!