One of our duties down here in Dispatcher’s Hell is using the computer to send messages to other agencies’s printers. For example, if I have a shooting in my county, or an Amber alert or something, I can simultaneously notify any and all other agencies in the country using the administrative message function. We can communicate with the FBI, INS, you name it, so we’re supposed to be all professional and grammatical whenever we use it.
About six months ago I made up a message relay cheat sheet for the new guy, something silly about rising up for the revolution and Cthulhu would bring us victory. And the very last line, just before keying in the end message command, was a single word.
As Og is my witness, I thought he knew the fnord was just part of my silly message and not a required field like the EOMR.
Tonight I found out I was wrong.
I wonder if anyone over in Quality Control has ever bothered to look it up. 