weird wednesday

Chilly says:

"After I heard they had declared a state of emergency at the governor's mansion because of black mold and how everybody was instantly evacuated, you know I had to open my mouth.  When the maintenance man came to do some minor repairs on the hospital floor, he asked if there was anything else that needed doing and I said - yeah, sure is.  Could you do something about the asbestos that just landed on your shoulder?  He looked up at where the wall was bubbling, took a giant step back and said - ya'll shouldn't be in here!  That's asbestos!  And I said, no kidding.  The air conditioner is blowing it and it's landing on the staff AND the patients.  He wanted to know why nobody had reported it, and I told him - I did report it.  Seven times.  So far, nobody has seen the need to do anything about it.  and I said, Oh!  And when you get finished with the asbestos removal, you might want to take a look at the black mold here.  It's hanging lower than Walt Whitman's beard.  If this were the governor's mansion, we'd all be whisked out of here ASAP, but no, it's a prison with plain old rank and file state employees who can't get a decent raise for doing real work while dealing with convicts who committed real crimes.  And Mr. Maintenance proceeded to tell me that we could get sick breathing that stuff and I said, No kidding!  Do you know how many people have left here with respiratory ailments in the last 10 years?  He wrote down a bunch of notes and said he would get back to me. He won't be back. You'll see.  Just like OSHA."