I Am Special (Yeah That Kind of Special)

Yesterday was a shocking day for me.  I work in juvenile justice so on occasion I can have a really bad day.  Some of the bad days have included having one of my favorite kids found dead, having to call child protective services due to rape, having one of my kids committed to adult jail for 15+ years, etc.  Everyone that knows me knows that I love my job.  Most of my kids are overall good kids.  I can honestly say in the year and a half I have worked at this job I have only met one kid I thought was truly evil.  But I get side tracked, I had a really shocking day yesterday.

I took an early lunch to go eat with my dad at 10:30 which I do most Wednesday's.  I returned to my office that I share with my partner at 11:30 and he took off for lunch.  I turned my computer back on and the screen was messed up.   So I turned my computer off and back on.  I decided to unplug my phone charger under my desk and plug in my speakers so I could listen to my ipod while I had the office to myself.  As I was plugging in the speakers the metal faceplate covering the sockets came loose.  I had the speakers half plugged in and the faceplate hit the prongs on the plug for the speakers.  I got a good zap.  A really good zap.  Of course my computer was booting up and my partner had left his on when the circuit breaker flipped.

All of this happened right after noon.  Do you think any of the maintenance guys took an early lunch?  Nope.  Luckily I could do some of my work from my smart phone.  My partner came back and laughed hard once he realized I was OK.  Then my husband called and laughed at me.  The final embarrassment was having to explain to the maintenance guy what I did.  He laughed at me too.  But he was really nice and fixed the faceplate and flipped the breaker back.

My partner and I had a couple seconds of panic.  We had spent all morning adding case files into a new database. I had added fifty files plus all of the notes.  Dominic had added fifty plus files also.  Crap!  I had a couple moments of panic because our database is brand new and not backed up on a server yet.  It took a couple of minutes of panic before I could see that my database was OK.

So long story short: don't play with electricity when everyone is at lunch...