Speaking of pagers!! I was sleeping after a night shift, and had left my pager on the dresser. It went off, I stumbled out of bed, tripped over the couch at the end of the bed, and BROKE MY TOE!!
It was the office paging me, asking me to work again that night. I had to tell them no. I was off work for 3 or 4 weeks....
boy, was the dispatcher embarrassed!