The message was from the emergency operator telling me I needed to call the King County medical examiner day or night as soon as possible. What happened to the days were police officer came to the door to give you bad news? Anyway I called him ask him my mother was Virginia Birkeland and I said yes and they said oh well she was killed today in a car accident. Not the kind of message you want at midnight on a Sunday night. Actually, not anything you want to get on any night of the week at any time of the day.
