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of their meds... by lodgix

..any time our office phone rings and I see it's a SoCal number, I cringe. I know that in all likelihood, the caller will be off-balanced, usually rude and just not quite "with it".. The resulting unpleasantness is not something I enjoy. However on occasion, I'll pick up the phone and it will be someone super nice and firing on all cylinders, many times the same person who was crazy just a couple weeks earlier...in most instances I find out that they were off their meds. Serious. It's very very common in socal, highly medicated folks.

ND football is much like SoCal. Most times they are off their meds, but on occasion, they are not. I still have to pick up the phone as it's what I do...and occasionally I get someone super nice and my hope in Socal is temporarily restored.

At 4pm Friday the phone will ring, it will be a SoCal number and I will answer it in typical Sisyphean fashion....who will be on the other end?