Trooper Station: Tuesday

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

Egg nog.

The phones were ringing off the hook today from complaining town folk regarding the sudden appearence of egg nog coming from various faucets, shower heads and water fountains.

"What do you want me to do?" Gibbs snapped at the citizen calling in. "Arrest a bunch of pipes? Drink the damn stuff and stop calling here."

Gibbs might have been a bit more polite with the townspeople of Fandom but unfortunately the island weirdness had violated rule #23 so the coffee machines were dispensing hot egg nog today.

And you should never mess with a marine's coffee.

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Vimes avoided the phonecall by sheer virtue of not allowing a phone in his office. Right about now it was backing up that being a good choice.

"It's not even Hogswatch," He grumbled once he poured himself the worst hot cup of eggnog in his life. "Isn't there a wizard around to get on fixing this?"

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"We're cops," Gibbs said with a bit of testiness in his voice. "Not David Copperfield. Why the hell are they calling us anyway?"

He turned and spied Ralph who seemed to like the hot egg nog. Damn him.

"Ralph! Get a damn message thing up telling people not to call us unless it has to do with an actual crime instead of a beverage," and then grudgingly nodded at Vimes. "If that's okay with you."

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"You can do that?" Vimes looked over at poor Ralph as well. "Why wasn't I told you could do that?"

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"You've only been here a week," Gibbs smirked. "Can't have everything down right away. You figure out the computers yet?"

[solesofmyfeet.livejournal.com]

Vimes just stared at him like he waiting for the explanation to involve imps inside a box.

[famous-gut.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's pretty much my opinion of them too."

Gibbs would probably like the imps explanation really.

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"Whatever happened to a pencil and paper?" Vimes asked, giving a dirty look to--no, that wasn't a computer. It was a fax machine. But he thought it was a computer.

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"I have some in my desk," Gibbs said with a shrug. "E-mail isn't too bad though. Just remember if you have a problem with a computer, just smack it until it starts working again."

Which is how Gibbs got a new computer on a regular basis back at NCIS.

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Somewhere... Ralph was trying very hard not to have a nervous breakdown.

"I think I can handle that."