Maybe you should start learning whatever the highest-census non English language in your locality is. Or get into Sudoku?

Ambulance service staff in the UK never stop. Ever. Perhaps long enough for tea and a pee at 5am but apart from that – no chance. My nursing home (lived there for 9 months, am now cared for in my own home again) used to make tea when they called a ‘bolance so that the guys/gals could at least get a coupla swigs in while they took the pt’s details.+

Usually, depending on where I’m working, I’ll be at level 15 or 16 and have just purchased a G3 assault rifle when we get a call. Almost always like clockwork….

now shhhhhhh

and dont wake the evil ones LOL

The only hitch in the giddyap is when I have a good fight goin on the end of the line and the tones go off. Haven’t lost a fish yet… cuz hey, there’s a BLS ambulance heading that way and BLS before ALS, right? Guys? Anyone?

It could be worse. You could always be at Bigger EMS service (you know the one I’m talking about,) on back-to-back runs.

My suggestions: FarmTown on Facebook. It’s every bit as silly as Mafia, and just as addicting. Feel free to add me to your Mafia! http://www.facebook.com/julesagain

And here’s a game that is portable, easy to play, and easy to stop and start if you get a call. You need 6 dice, and some pen and paper, and a flat surface. I learned it while tending bar years ago as “Greedy”, but I’ve seen a version on Facebook called Farkle (?!) that is almost exactly the same.

Scoring:
5 – 50 points
1 – 100
3 of a kind (rolled all at once):
3 x 2 = 200
3 x 3 = 300
3 x 4 = 400
3 x 5 = 500
3 x 6 = 600
3 x 1 = 1000
3 pairs = 1250 (rolled all at once)
straight – all 6 dice = 1500 (rolled all at once)

So, you can’t roll a 5, then a 1, then two more 5’s and count them as 500. They would count as 150 though, at 50 points each.

If you have points on all 6 dice, you MUST roll them all again, and add the new points to the prev. total (write it down, its hard to remember).

You must get points on at least one die to keep rolling.

You must score 750 to open.

If you have a roll with no points, you lose all accumulated points on that turn, including points accumulated in a first round, such as a straight. (thus the name, Greedy).

The way I learned it was, if you rolled a 5 (50 points), and then a 1 (100 points), you could pick up all the dice except the 1, including the previously rolled 5, and roll again. The online version doesn’t allow that … so maybe that’s a bastardized version. But it’s more fun that way

As long as you score a 1 or a 5, or one of the points options listed above, you can keep rolling. The initial hurdle of 750 can be surprisingly hard to get, although sometimes we’d up it to 1000 just to be contrary. We’d play to 10,000, 50,000 – really you can set it at whatever you want. Speed rounds could be just 10 turns, and you’re done, like the online version.

Enjoy,
Jules

You could at least practice playing “Mary had a little lamb” with the ambulance sirens (It can be done. Knew an ambulance driver in Syracuse, NY that could tap it out by turning on and off various sirens. I didn’t know whether to be amazed or disturbed).

Maybe you should’ve tried lunch?

However, on my last third ride I came prepared to do my powerpoints and presentation for a class project and we ran all day long- they were ready to throw me to the wolves by 5pm.

The fates are EMS are quite contrary!