The one where I yell at an old man

I don't know why, but I've been having a lot of really strange dreams lately. Haven't been taking ANY sleep aids, but yet I still have strange dreams. Usually any kind of sleep aid makes me have the most bizarre, and sometimes, lucid dreams.

So last night's dream was one of those that starts out as one thing and turns into something else. I was walking home from somewhere. Not in my neighborhood, but someplace like it. Or maybe it was where I used to live. Not sure. And it was early, so I decided I was going to find somewhere to have breakfast.

I decided to choose something on my walk home. I walked by several restaurants, but didn't feel in the mood for anything. So I just went home. Basically I got all the way home before I realized I'd run out of options.

When I got home, it turned into something work related. Like it was now work instead of my house.

Immediately I ran into a problem. A man came by who wanted to volunteer. I tried explaining that I couldn't give him a volunteer job. Etc.

I think this has to do with a few phone conversations I had yesterday with various people who have no idea what my organization does for the community. One wanted us to pledge to help him and his wife. I spent five minutes explaining that we don't do that here before he hung up on me. And I always get people who want us to find them a volunteer job and just give it to them. No one does that. If you think someone does, I'd like to know who would take on that kind of liability. Think about it...say you are an organization, you get Joe off the street who wants to work with children. You send Joe to work mentoring children at a school. Joe molests a child. Who's going to get blamed afterward? Joe and YOU! And, say you have a policy that you screen everyone. You need the man power to do the screening and the money to run background checks. I know we don't have either of these. This is why organizations do this themselves.

So now back to my dream.

The guy argues with me for...I don't know...forever. In the midst of this, I realize that I haven't had breakfast and I'm hungry. Finally, I get in the old man's face and start swearing at him. I totally lost it.

Somewhere around there it ended.

Then I woke up at 4am for some unknown reason. Maybe I couldn't handle my dream anymore.