I have a healthy number of superstitions in my life.

I have to brush my teeth before I shave.

I have to put my right shoe on first.

I have to do the cat treats in a specific order.

When I was designing my office had to be put away and my drafting table had to be spotless before I could start a project.

I never shaved after tech started until opening night. Never.

As a GM I have others.

I have to have coffee first thing upon getting there.

I say hello to say everyone in the building while the coffee brews.

I say goodbye to everyone at the end of the night.

One of my most important is to never say it’s going to be a slow night.

It jinks the night. Business might not be there but there’ll be a ton of mistakes. We’ll run out of French Fries. We’ll find out at 5:15 we are out of CO2. One fun night years ago, we ran out of propane. It’s hard to cook food when there’s no propane.

So I prefers the term quiet. It will result in an uneventful night.

So I said this at work one night last week and my server who is a nurse, lets call her Stephanie, because that’s her name said, oh no. And proceeded to tell me that nurses NEVER say quiet on the floor at the hospital. It was destined to cause total chaos. Every nurse knows this.

When I got to the hospital today I was the first patient to arrive at 6:00 am. However by 6:15 the place was hopping.

So when I was put in my wheel chair to be taken down to meet Adam Beckworth, the place was deserted.

So I said to my nurse, Wow! It’s so quiet now.

There were yelps from the whole nursing staff. Who followed up with NEVER SAY THAT!!!!!!!

My nurse explained they were between what I’d call seatings. It would be busy again soon, and as they were short staffed saying quiet would result in chaos.

And off to the elevators we went.

And this post is courteous of the Hallmark movie Hearts of Christmas.

They had a retiring nurse coming in to work the night shift and said she always liked that shift because it was so QUIET.

I heard all the nurses from my surgery today gasp.