Original Message

True that! 

We were both night shift guys and he called me at about 2 AM to complain that he was being dispatched on a flight that he thought I should take because he thought we were closer.  I tried to explain to him the dispatch folks had the technology to know who was, in fact, actually closer, and they would send the right aircraft.  That went on for like 10 or 15 minutes.  I finally said to him, "you realize if you had just taken the call, you'd be launched and almost there by now, right?"  He hung up on me.  I swear to God!

The other time, he was doing workover at oour base.  We were rural and about an hour away from the major metro area hospital.  I relieved him for the night shift and asked if he'd had any flight.  He repiled that he turned one down "due to weather."  I asked what the weather issue was.  He said, "it was raining when the call came in."  I replied, "we haven't had any rain today."  He said, "not here, at the receiving hospital."  I asked him if the rain was "when the call came in, or forcast for the 1.5 hours later when he would be arriving?"  HE said it didn't matter because he "didn'y fly in rain."  I said, "well you know the aircraft can, right?"  His reply was, "well I don't," and "goodbye."