“I hate it when people are mean to others unnecessarily.”

I’m going to assume that’s the pathetic reason there’s been no clarification edited in. And why the two comments correcting the post are at the bottom. Jfc, Jez staff.

The patient was in SVT, a superfast heart rhythm that doesn’t really pump blood too well. The pulse at the apex was WAY over 200, the pulse at the wrist was 40. So you see...the patient was crashing. The doctor, a psycho bully bitch, kept screaming, PUSH ATROPINE! because panic. She needed adenosine, but atropine is…

That is terrifying and I’m glad it ended well for you. 

I had a teacher bring a piñata to class and she was going to have us line up alphabetical order to hit it. I suggested we do reverse alphabetical order so kids with initials at the back would get to go first for a change. The teacher agreed and switched the order. My last name started with a K at the time and I was…

I like where I work and who I work with, but the finance and tech sector is still very much an old guys network with precious few women and no appreciable pipeline to fix it. I get the usual daily sexist crap and most of the time I just deal.

The time when, as a 17 year old travelling through London with a huge 100 litre rucksack on I came across an obviously disabled man who everybody on the platform was ignoring (to the point of having a 6foot ‘bubble ‘ around him) despite him plainly struggling. He had a stick, so he was fairly mobile, but it was…

You rock

Many a year ago (it was probably around 2001) I was driving home by myself late at night and a car cut me off in a really menacing manner, for no reason. Weird, I thought, but whatever. I was almost home. Then I drove another couple of blocks and the same car very aggressively cut me off again. So I leaned on my horn,…

I used to go to an LA Fitness. Nice gym and all, now I have a home treadmill.

In Jackson MS, about 4 years ago, I was at a popular bar during an open mic night. I was sitting in the back chatting up some random new acquaintances. On the stage a mostly-drunk/completely-joyus woman had wandered up to an empty drum set. She banged on the drums for 10 minutes. Every second of her performance was…

I once yelled at a guy, across a parking lot no less, for tossing something out his window as he drove by. (“Nice job, pig!”) The words were out of my mouth before my brain could weigh the consequences. Like, it was broad daylight and in public, so I probably WOULD NOT get murdered, but you can never rule it out, you…

I grew up in a small South Carolina town- Seneca- and was in Honors English 9th and 10th grade with the same teacher- who was just named SC teacher of the year. I was also queer and knew it but wasn’t out because I was in Seneca Sc in 1990. We were studying Whitman- and the teacher could only talk about how he was gay…

I once took a bee for my dog.

Road rage is the stupidest thing. I really don’t understand how some people get so worked up and make it sooooo personal. 

I used to be a barmaid in a remote Australian town that had a large Aboriginal population and was so, so racist. The pub had two bars in separate rooms, connected by an opening behind the bar so the bar staff could move easily between them.

I was in college several years back taking Political Science/International Studies. I forget which niche topic the class was supposed to be for, but it was taught by the head of the Political Science department, an old white man who’d been working for forty plus years. Generally, he was nice and generous with grades.

Guys. Ayanna Pressley was the one who said

Some little shithead was hitting my six-year-old kid at recess. We talked to the teacher and the principal multiple times to no avail. (We don’t know who is doing it, your child only mentions it after-the-fact, etc)

I recently stood up for equal pay during a contract negotiation, in particular the fact that dividing new starts in six month periods meant half the intake will get no pay increment while half would. Come a month later my issue becomes official negotiation policy so we all get equal treatment. I will also be making a…