Dolly / N9S

Juicelog Wed 150306: Attended Dolly’s retirement lunch today. Dolly is the extremely nice and sweet nurse at my workplace. Unfortunately the lunch wasn’t very well organised (salsa dance demonstration, karaoke and the speech didn’t go as planned). Work colleagues turned up at various times (as the organiser decided to change the start time to a really awkward time of the day). Nobody invited our Chief Executive or the Service Director. They gave her cash as a leaving present (a bundle of fucking five pound notes stuffed inside her card!!!!). Luckily, the food and the drink worked out.

The partyboy inside me got slightly annoyed as I view retirements as biggish events in the calendar of milestones. And this whole thing reminded me of a small casual informal drop-in clinic rather than a retirement soiree. Seeing this poorly planned mish mash affair made my heart sank. Dolly certainly deserved better than this for the 20 years she’s given to our Service. I’m sooo tempted to organise her a proper memorable event including writing the goddamn leaving speeches myself.

On the way home I chanced upon a little sticker (depicting the worlds aid day red ribbon) at the bus stop that read:

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http://www.n9s.org

You gotta check this out and NOT skip the intro. As soon as I saw the line “There is Only 1 Party” flash up I naturally assumed that this was an advert for Later. But then seeing the photo of party leader (Kevin Q) I then realised I had made a grave mistake as it was obviously an advert for XXL and not Later.