My wake up call from Homeland Security

My phone rings at 8 in the morning on a Saturday, waking me up. I’m thinking my parents need something since most of my friends would still be in bed too, but what I do hear is the guy introduced himself as Homeland Security Agent. Ok! I’m awake now!

I ask him what I can I help you with (needles to say I’ve never been ask for help from a government department before). Well he tells me he can’t find a buddy of mine and my name was used as a reference and he figured to call me to locate him. I’ve been used as references before and talked to other government agencies, but never ask to locate someone. As sarcastic as I am, I had a hell of a time not to make a sarcastic remark but again I don’t want my buddy to lose out on a job because of smart remark I made. But I was thinking it. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN’T FIND HIM, YOU’RE HOMELAND SECURITY! But I didn’t say it. I gave him the phone number and told the agent if you still can’t reach him, call me back and I’ll see what I can do for you.

It gets better; I talked to my buddy later in the day to tell that Homeland Security is looking for him. He starts to laugh and tells me that 3 different agents before have try to interview him. I ask what’s the problem then, he tell me before you can even get interview you need to get a medical evaluation which he said he fail, something minor but still disqualify him for the job. Apparently no one in the agency talks to each other and he has told every person that called him that he was disqualify and none of the information hasn’t been pass on the subject. Make one wonder about the government in this day in age of technology with the lack of communication.