Turns out five's a charm – the errant bear had finally been found wedged in the corner of a laundry chute, would be dispatched to me forthwith and no, this was not the most cringeworthy quest to recover a missing item pursued by the hotel, Ms Badham, it really does happen all the time.
Six slow blinks, four fast blinks, repeated twice: I wouldn't be offended if Seal Team Six were dispatched to rescue me.
He introduced himself as Javier Cotrino, Dr. Sabacthani's personal assistant, dispatched to chauffeur me to her mansion.
"You gave him $100?" asked one of two incredulous police officers dispatched to meet me on 74th Street and Third Avenue when I telephoned from my cellphone.
Before I found out that a family member had been dispatched to meet me off the train, they even arranged for a taxi to ensure I wouldn't have to get across London by myself.
The unmistakable shape of Sellafield's reactor came into view, surrounded by buildings so immense and numerous and sci-fi-city weird that I wouldn't have been surprised if flying monkeys had been dispatched to repel me.
Timings from ambulance dispatch to arrival at hospital and handover will be acquired from the ambulance computer-aided dispatch system.
Check out the newest Dispatch Book, Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me.
The novel has been assigned to generations of American high school and college students — my college dispatched a copy to me before my freshman year.
He wrote 32 of them – and his last one was dispatched by email to me and two other mates today (he's really not bothered about hits).
Rebecca Solnit's new bestselling book of essays on women, power, and violence, Men Explain Things to Me (Dispatch Books, Haymarket Books), has just been published.
