One
of the hospital’s staff canteens:
cog:
not the point, well, yes, there is no real point but it’s just,
you know, it’s just such a fucking waste. I mean, not just, I mean time, my
time, and I don’t see the point in that.
cog
(sitting down with trayful of food): Hey. Was that the guy you two
cogs
(together): Yeah.
cog:
What’s the story? Was it a suicide, or was there
cog:
Oh God, he was brought in last night sometime after eleven, from that thing at
the garage, and
cog:
Oh right, yeah, I heard about that on the radio on the way in. It was his
brother or something wasn’t it?
cog:
Oh fuck, it’s all... Anyway, he comes in pretty much in pieces and Aaron and I
were up ‘til seven with him, like fucking tailors basically, and then this
evening, as soon as he’s compos mentis, or whatever the fuck passed for compos
mentis in his head, he walks out of the ward, up through the, I mean he
shouldn’t have even been walking, but off he goes, up through the
precinct, through the front halls for fuck sake, out, right out along the
maternity bays, up the maintenance, I mean, how the fuck he knew where that all
was I don’t know, but he got up the service ladders out onto the roof,
and that was that.
cog:
And nobody
cog:
No. Nobody gave a fuck. He was seen by a ton of people who must’ve known just
by, I mean he wasn’t, he looked like a fucking rag doll for fuck sake.
cog:
Well, you know, I’m not really that bothered, it’s just the work. I
mean, if I’d known I wouldn’t have, actually I would’ve just taken him up there
last night myself and pitched him off.
Laughter.
cog:
Oh hey speaking of maternity, there’s some shit about that, remember that
Canadian girl with the, ache1 they call her,
cog:
Oh yeah, what’s the
cog:
From what I heard there’s, and this is just what I’ve heard, right, but
there’s a guy coming over from Canada specially to make the delivery, and all
the obs are going a bit... It’s all politics really, nobody wants to say too
cog:
How come he’s coming over though? What’s the
cog:
Well, I think he’s worked on her before, there’s definitely some
connection, and they’re expecting complications and this guy’s supposed to know
her inside out so I’m
