Amen! Honky here from Missouri. Beef tongue is the best.

That's quite a paragraph. You've got some pretty bitter notions about mixed marriages. It sounds like you have personal reasons for feeling the way you do. Let me ask you.. if you knew of a couple, white woman/black man, who were married in the long term, whose families were happy with their choice of spouse,…

Aw, C'MON! White woman here and I'm here to say puffy-eyed, sharp tongued drunks come in all ethnicities and colors. This "type" can only respond by upping the ante when confronted. There's no limit to their desire to shock and offend because they are a bottomless bucket of shit. Think of her as that mean hair pulling…

They point out that she's aging because they are SCARED OF HER BRAIN.

I don't think you are a weirdo..Hillary is cute as all get out, with her round face and pretty smile. What a doll!

Too many years jerking off over On the Road.

OH, Christ on a cracker..."Bennies" refers to benzedrine, a totally different drug class...Benzedrine used to be used in decongestant inhalers ( typically a paper type strip soaked with the drug) and Jack and his cohorts ate them. Cheap thrills!

Yeah, cotton isn't used so much by EMS..they have these nifty little IV kits with gauze squares, also known as flat pad things. Come to think of it, I don't think I ever use cotton balls much, except for taking fingernail polish off of a patient's finger to check the color of their nail bed.

Disguise this fetish by biting the top off an egg roll, pouring it full of soy sauce and discreetly sipping...much like vodka in a waterglass.

Not nice. While we nurses privately thought the cotton ball EMT was a little flakey, his signs of distress were certainly real enough. That cotton ball monster would have sent him over the edge. My personal phobia nightmare would be a Styrofoam monster force feeding me Miracle Whip.

Please explain this monstrosity.

I'm free this weekend. I would be willing to come to Texas and, uh, EXPLAIN, this to Mr. Three Piece Suit. I wonder how he feels about spiders?

Oh, AMEN! Back when I was a tot Father McCynic bought me a Sears and Roebuck microscope (thinking I was a future genius/scientist/shitwonder), but I couldn't stand the Styrofoam it was packed in, so it was all for naught, his expectations were crushed and I became a failure.

Welllll, I'm not so sure about that (in this particular case)...right before he'd pass out he'd mumble something about the fibers and the general cottony cotton-ness of said balls...then he'd go oars up. We'd press him for a better explaination, but then he'd start retching, so...

Question....too.......esoteric.

I don't know why I flashed on this, but I worked with an EMT so phobic about cotton balls he'd start sweating and faint at the sight of one.

THANKS, but I personally know 17 other "good ones". We were too scared of our instructors to be otherwise!

Listen, I am an RN and I will answer call lights, clean out a commode, do wound care, drain leg bags, make a bed and help the aides with bed baths. Once the aides realize I'm in it with them, I get results. If not, watch out.

Well, I'm probably the Unfavorite RN, because I make the biggest stink. I lost a patient that had survived being a Marine that fought on Okinawa and he died of C-diff carried into his room by staff too lazy to wash their hands. He was recovering from pneumonia and was doing just fine. I came back to work after a few…

Sorry, sister, I meant all staff, especially administration. A crap adminstrator sets the example, morale gets low and patients suffer. My pet peeve is sloppy nursing. Turn the patient! Take care of their skin! RN's, if you are short staffed, get your ass to work and perform the skills your nursing ancestors did. I…