I had an interesting experience at the hospital this last weekend that bothered me.
On Friday evening, the hospital received a call from a man saying he was a manager for Toby Keith and that they were coming the direction of the hospital to bring a very large check (over $3 million to beat the Telethon, he said) and that Toby was bringing out country singers with him (Clint Black, Carrie Underwood, Allan Jackson, and a secret surprise (Keith Urban). They were doing all of this because they were disenchanted with the fact that Primary Children’s was excluded from a NASCAR race where some children’s hospitals were named beneficiaries of a large competition.
This guy came to the hospital (which 99% of these crazies don't ever do).
He presented a check for $3.3 million, then he turned around with a cell phone to his ear and said, "I need to take that back. Toby wants to bring up a cashier’s check."
The guy never showed up on Sunday of course.
I kept getting calls from my boss saying to standby in case we had to go in on Sunday to make this happen and if I were her, I would have been very upset about losing my weekend to this crazy. She spent almost 5 hours with him on Saturday, then an hour on Sunday to meet him and his "crew".
To be honest, I think she was way nicer than I ever would have been. I mean what is wrong with people?! What would possess someone to do something like this? I am amazed at the lengths this man went to pull off his stunt, which we have all decided was some kind of prank. He wasted his own weekend on this and my bosses and for what? Not to mention the fact this is a children's hospital and we are trying to save lives!!!
One of my co-workers and I have decided the best solution to this problem is to find where this guy lives and do an old-school egging. ;-)
