The One Where Emzy Ordered Green Peppers

Even by Emzy standards, this one is pretty epic. And it's such a ridiculous string of events, it's hard to decide where to start. So I'll take my cue from Fräulein Maria and start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.

And as it turns out, the beginning involves Emzy (and a couple other staff) managing a major medical crisis with one of the staff members at camp....in the middle of the night. She and the others who were with her finally made it to bed around 4:30 this morning and still managed to roll into breakfast on time.

She and Andrew had already planned to take another staff member (who broke her wrist this past weekend) to the hospital today for surgery to set the broken bone. They had a few hours to kill while she was in surgery, so the headed to Chipotle for a sneaky Code 11 (that was the code name for a Chipotle run at camp last summer). I got a google talk message that said, "OMG - the dad from Jon & Kate Plus 8 is HERE!!!" Of course I didn't exactly believe her, but my skepticism was later alleviated when she posted this:

It's a bit dark, and from a bad angle, but it's cool. I wouldn't want to be creepin on the guy when he was trying to enjoy his delicious burrito. And if that wasn't a random enough happening for the day, they met some new friends on the way back to the hospital. But not the way anyone else meets friends...

Driving down the street with their walkie talkies from camp hanging out in the cupholder, they started hearing some static. And the conversation went something like this:

Girl: Order one case of red pepper and one case of yellow pepper

Guy: Okay

Emzy: And a case of green peppers

Guy: What?

Emzy: Also order a case of green peppers
Guy: okay a case of red, yellow, and green peppers?

Girl: What?

Emzy: And a case of apples

Guy: What is going on? That's weird

Emzy: What's so weird about green peppers and apples?

Girl: Who is this?

Emzy: It's Emily

Girl: Hi Emily. Where are you?

Emzy: In the car, driving down the road. We heard you on our walkie talkies and thought I'd say hi

Girl: Oh cool! We always pick up other peoples' signals but nobody has ever said hi

Emzy: Where are you?

Girl: DSW. You should come in and say hi

Emzy: Maybe I will next time I'm there. What's your name?

Girl: Cory - I'm the store manager

Emzy: Okay cool!

WOW....that's all I have to say about that.

And just to top it all off, when they got back to the hospital, they got stuck in a revolving door. Somehow, I'm not at all surprised.

The One Where Emzy Went to Target

So the title of this blog post really isn't all that surprising. Cause anyone who knows anything about Emzy knows that she goes to Target. A lot. She even has a route through the store. And heaven help you if you go along and throw off the groove. It's bad news.

But this trip to Target was exceptionally ridiculous...even by Emzy standards. She was on a night off from camp with Barry, an international staff member she may or may not be romantically involved with. As they were walking into the store, Barry stopped and pointed to the door frame. Perched there on the corner was a bright blue and green and red parrot-ish bird, just chilling.

With absolutely no idea what to do, Em put Barry in charge of keeping an eye on the bird and she went to talk to the Target customer service. I mean, what exactly do you say in a situation like this? "Umm, excuse me? I just wanted to let someone know that there's an exotic looking bird hanging out on your front door." Well, it went something like that. And the freckled-face 17 year old kid behind the counter responded by handing her a box to keep it in.

The obvious explanation was that this guy had somehow escaped from PetSmart down the street. So off they went, bird in tow. Since PetSmart was closed, they could only enter through the grooming appointments door. And they were greeted by an extra-friendly store associate who informed them rather gruffly that the store was closed and they couldn't be there. When they explained that they thought they had found an escaped animal, the lady showed a bit more interest.

Upon further brief examination (and by further brief examination I mean a quick glance) she told Emzy and Barry that it was a lovebird, that it wasn't from the store, and that they couldn't leave it there. Do things like this happen when Emzy isn't involved....like in real life? I doubt it.

So then I get a phone call while back at camp asking me to look up the number for and call the Frederick County animal control. And since I'm good at doing what I'm told, I called and reported the lost lovebird. I was informed by animal control that it was very unusual to find one lovebird without its mate. That's how they got their name, after all. But can you just imagine how weird my phone call was? "Um, hi, my name's Bekah, and I'm calling to report that my sister (who, by the way, is 30 miles away from me) found this random lovebird by itself at the Target and has absolutely no idea what to do with it but can tell that it doesn't belong there on its own."

So yeah, it was odd. But this is life. Specifically, this is life with Emzy.