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FUN WITH TELEMARKETERS: What to say to a telemarketer! One of the things that has always bugged me (and I'm sure it has most of you, too) is to sit down to dinner only to be interrupted by a phone call from a telemarketer. I decided, on one such occasion, to try to be as irritating to them as they were to me. The call was from AT&T, and it went something like this: Me: Hello AT&T: Hello, this is AT&T.... Me: Is this AT&T? AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T.... Me: This is AT&T? AT&T: Yes. This is AT&T.... Me: Is this AT&T? AT&T: YES! This is AT&T. May I speak to Mr. Salem please? Me: May I ask who is calling? AT&T: This is AT&T. Me: OK, hold on. At this point, I put the phone down for a solid 5 minutes thinking that, surely, this person would have hung up the phone. I ate my salad. Much to my surprise, when I picked up the receiver, she was still waiting. Me: Hello? AT&T: Is this Mr. Salem? Me: May I ask who is calling please? AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T.... Me: Is this AT&T? AT&T: Yes, this is AT&T.... Me: This is AT&T? AT&T: Yes, is this Mr. Salem? Me: Yes, is this AT&T? AT&T: Yes, sir. Me: The phone company? AT&T: Yes, sir. Me: I thought you said this was AT&T. AT&T: Yes, sir, we are a phone company. Me: I already have a phone. AT&T: We aren't selling phones today, Mr. Salem. Me: Well, whatever it is, I'm really not interested, but thanks for calling. When you are not interested in something, I don't think you can express yourself any plainer than by saying "I'm really not interested", but this lady was persistent. AT&T: Mr. Salem, we would like to offer you 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Now, I am sure she meant she was offering a "rate" of 10 cents a minute, but she at no time used the word "rate". I could clearly see that it was time to whip out the trusty old calculator and do a little ciphering. Me: Now, that's 10 cents a minute 24 hours a day? AT&T: (getting a little excited at this point by my interest) Yes, sir, that's right! 24 hours a day! Me: 7 days a week? AT&T: That's right. Me: 365 days a year? AT&T: Yes, sir. Me: I am definitely interested in that! Wow!! That's amazing!! AT&T: We think so! Me: That's quite a sum of money! AT&T: Yes, sir, it's amazing how it adds up. Me: OK, so will you send me checks weekly, monthly or just one big one at the end of the year for the full $52,560? If you send an annual heck, can I get a cash advance? AT&T: Excuse me? Me: You know, the 10 cents a minute. AT&T: What are you talking about? Me: You said you'd give me 10 cents a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That comes to $144 per day, $1,008 per week and $52,560 per year. I'm just interested in knowing how you will be making payment. AT&T: Oh no, sir, I didn't mean we'd be paying you. You pay us 10 cents a minute. Me: Wait a minute here! Didn't you say you'd give me 10 cents a minute? Are you sure this is AT&T? AT&T: Well, yes, this is AT&T, sir, but.... Me: But nothing! How do you figure that by saying that you'll give me 10 cents a minute that I'll give you 10 cents a minute? Is this some kind of suliminal telemarketing scheme? I've read about things like this in the Enquirer, you know. Don't use your alien brainwashing techniques on me. AT&T: No, sir, we are offering 10 cents a minute for.... Me: THERE YOU GO AGAIN! Can I speak to a supervisor please?!? AT&T: Sir, I don't think that is necessary. Me: Sure! You say that now! What happens later? AT&T: What? Me: I insist on speaking to a supervisor! AT&T: Yes, Mr. Salem. Please hold. So, now AT&T has me on hold, and my supper is getting cold. I begin to eat while I'm waiting for a supervisor. After a wait of a few minutes and while I have a mouth full of food....... Supervisor: Mr. Salem? Me: Yeth? Supervisor: I understand you are not quite understanding our 10 cents a minute program. Me: Id thish Ath Teeth & Teeth? (Is this AT&T) Supervisor: Yes, sir, it sure is. I had to swallow before I choked on my food. It was all I could do to suppress my laughter, and I had to be careful not to produce a snort. Me: No, actually I was just waiting for someone to get back to me so that I could sign up for the plan. Supervisor: OK, no problem, I'll transfer you back to the person who was helping you. Me: Thank you. I was on hold once again and managed a few more mouthfuls. I needed to end this conversation. Suddenly, there was an aggravated but polite voice at the other end of the phone. AT&T: Hello, Mr. Salem. I understand that you are interested in signing up for our plan? Me: Do you have that friends and family thing because you can never have enough friends and I'm an only child and I'd really like to have a little brother......... AT&T: (click) Note From Me: When I get a call from a telemarketer I prefer to give them options. I simply tell them Steve is not here right now but would they prefer to speak to Slob Boy, Gutter Boy, BrainDead Man ..... Click............ Or My Other Favorite... Are you single? Click............

Some old, some new, most still funny "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - Army's magazine of preventive maintenance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. - U.S. Marine Corps ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General Macarthur ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me." - U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Five second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything." - U.S. Navy Swabbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." - Joe Gay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Any ship can be a minesweeper... once." - Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do." - Unknown Marine Recruit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base at Kadena,Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." - From an old carrier sailor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter and therefore, unsafe." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Never trade luck for skill." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh S...!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Progress in airline flying: Now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: "When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slow and gently as possible." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum." - Jon McBride, astronaut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." - Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?" The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)

'Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse. 'Cuzz the cat had pounced on him And tore him apart - Ate his mouse intestines And chewed up his heart. Kitty thought he heard sleighbells, Which made him take pause - He stopped daintily licking The blood from his claws. "Must be Santa," thought Kitty (That quite clever cat) 'Cuz nobody else climbs down The chimney like that. Indeed it was ol' Santa So jolly and fat With a huge load of presents And all for the cat! "Wow, the best Christmas ever!" Kitty thought with a purr, Then he coughed up a hairball ________________________________________________________________________ 14 things that PMS stands for 1. Pass My Shotgun 2. Psychotic Mood Shift 3. Perpetual Munching Spree 4. Puffy Mid-Section 5. People Make me Sick 6. Provide Me with Sweets 7. Pardon My Sobbing 8. Pimples May Surface 9. Pass My Sweatpants 10. Pissy Mood Syndrome 11. Plainly - Men Suck 12. Pack My Stuff 13. Potential Murder Suspect 14.Putting up with Men's shit

Below are four (4) questions. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK? Let's find out just how clever you really are. Ready? GO!!! (scroll down) First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second! Try not to screw up in the next question. To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question. Second Question: If you overtake the last person, then you are...? Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?! Only if you LAP them, which means that you must be......... first!!!! You're not very good at this are you? Third Question: Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total? Scroll down for answer.. Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question right? Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter? Answer: Nunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again

I wonder how tough you really are under that exterior, soft spoken and given the fact a great family provider. You do a job with out complaint, then again you dont gripe much only when it gets you down. You're such a tease, always smiling, you work away, caring for those who can't help themselves. Your new at this job, you really dont see much in the way of MVA's or DOA's, so you look for other ways to keep you sane. You decide you want to play Santa at the local mall or you volunteer at the Nursing home. Anyway you look at it at least you are caring for the community, working with people is what you wanted. Whether your job is a paid or a volly, you need to get people together and talk about what Fire/EMS truly is, is it a service that should stay focused and not be concerned with pay or do you think you should be paid what you are worth? In Calgary here it cost's about $5000 to become an EMT, to go to Sait to become a Paramedic it's $10,000. So here's the deal, our medics was about to strike, its still in the open and wont be dealt with till Sept 28th. Arbertraitor will decide for them . . . You or someone who wants to be in the forefront of things need to get congress to wake up or better yet GO ON STRIKE, even if you are paid nothing, the country needs to see that this is an esential service not a hand out. It seems that the USA is a rich country, so why cant they pay you a few measely dollars, if they dont plan on paying you what your worth?

My neighbor had a dog named Firestone named after the tire I guess, and one day he got out of the yard and he called everywhere for him. I think Todd was either drunk or drugged when he named his dog that. Imagine the people who came out as he yelled "Fire". :wink:

PET DESCRIPTION UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY – BE FIT FOR LIFE CENTRE Introduction The Physical Evaluation Test is comprised of two individual tests. The first is a threecycle circuit obstacle course, simulating four typical physical labor tasks which paramedics must perform on a daily basis. Strength Agility Anaerobic Flexibility The second is a stretcher carry test in which a stretcher, weighted with (approx.) 160 lb must be carried in a controlled manner up and down two flights of stairs with the aid of a partner. The partners switch position after each flight. Wear gym attire with running shoes. It is advisable to wear clothing that will cover your arms and legs. Be well rested and well nourished. (Be sure to follow all of the preliminary instructions). History Having incurred the highest per capita on-the-job lost time accident frequency of all City of Calgary departments during the last several years, the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Management Committee has proposed the development of a job specific physical ability obstacle course for pre-employment screening of recruits. Pre-employment screening allows the EMS to determine whether a worker is physically fit for employment based on a recruit’s ability to perform job-related tasks. The nature of paramedic work dictates immediate response and reaction after possible ong periods of sedentary tasks, challenging a person’s physical capacity with no warm up or physical preparation. Given the wide variety of hazards that face the EMS paramedic, a properlydesigned screening process can protect susceptible workers from unnecessary risk of injury, as well as reduce the economic costs of work compensation, disability claims, lost productivity, and absenteeism for the City of Calgary. The Physical Evaluation Testing (PET) developed by Mount Royal College Sport and Fitness Resource Centre is practical in its development and implementation, and the PET screening procedure will be able to accurately predict the risk of future injury, illness, and performance. The development of the PET program was jointly sponsored by the Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife Foundation and the City of Calgary Emergency Medical Services Department. Research showed that there are no pre-existing programs of this www.mhc.ab.ca/befitforlife/pdf/PET.pdf

I should think before I post but seeing what you guys deal with, I kinda got off on the wrong foot . . .I'm sorry. I'm a nice person, I get along with everyone. My sister said that try not to stir the pot because we want them to treat our mother nicely and the fact she wants to stay there. So when I go in I chat with the LPN's and PCA's and ask them how they are, then it makes their job a little easier. I've helped them on certains days, once when the medic's showed up and they couldnt find a nurse and so I took them to where the pt was and the medic says to me, do you have his file and I said wait I'll go get it, insted I found the nurse and said the medics are here and they need the pt's info. She said to me thankyou for helping her, they were short staffed that day, guess it's everywhere (short staffed). I want to change the world and make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race. Michael Jackson

Something has been bothering me and I thought the greatest way to solve it is YOU TELL ME game. I'm guessing that there are quite a few Chuck and Larry's out there, and not just in the FD. Here is a offical website of Adam Sandler http://www.adamsandler.com/ Try the games out especially the one called: HOE VS HOE Which one are you? Tell me why you would want to be that person but it has to be CHUCK or LARRY!

Fri, July 20, 2007 CALGARY ALBERTA CANADA EMS set to issue strike notice UPDATED: 2007-07-20 15:44:10 MST By BILL KAUFMANN, SUN MEDIA City paramedics say they’ll issue a strike notice early next week after rejecting the city’s invitation to voluntary binding arbitration. Union spokeswoman Rina Campus said a 99% strike mandate from members means they can’t accept the city’s offer. “It’s too little, too late — they should have done it when talks broke off a month ago,” said Campus. “We’re going to continue on with our course of action.” The union will hold an information picket at city hall on Monday and are expected to issue their 72-hour strike notice soon after that. But the province is expected to respond by declaring an emergency and sending the dispute to binding arbitration. Union president Bruce Robb said they’re under no illusions about how the deadlock will work out. “At the end of the day we will likely end up in an arbitration process,” he said. The impasse centres over the union’s demand for an 18% wage hike over three years — 30% according to the city, which has offered a 12% increase. City spokeswoman Vickie Megrath said the city is disappointed at the union’s rejection of their arbitration offer. “It would ensure we’d have ambulances on the streets to ensure Calgarians aren’t at risk,” she said. A contingency plan has been set up by the city to operate some ambulances using paramedic management staff in the event of a walkout, although Megrath said it won’t be a full substitute for its 425 EMS workers. “We know we can’t reproduce the current level of service but we will be able to address emergency calls ... they’re fully-trained and qualified paramedics,” she said. Campus said any level of response the city’s contingency plan delivers would be a risk to public safety. “Two paramedics versus one paramedic in an ambulance — you just have to take that for what it is,” she said, adding paramedics are hard-pressed as it is keeping up with Calgary’s growing call volume. No new talks are planned between the city and paramedics who have been without a contract for one year. The union says it’s seeking wage parity with other emergency service staff, arguing there’s a $6-an-hour gap. But the city contends its offer reflects that accepted by most of its other workers, and that the union’s demands are too rich for taxpayers.

Calgary EMS - Strike notice served Evans aims to halt EMS action By Shawn Logan Calgary Sun July 24, 2007 Paramedics could walk away from their ambulances Thursday, but the province's industry minister says a strike will likely be headed off by the appointment of a special panel to resolve the dispute. Dozens of EMS workers, backed by other unions, had pickets at city hall yesterday just before union boss Bruce Robb officially delivered 72 hours strike notice to the city, setting the stage for a labour showdown that has forced the province to intercede. The notice would allow paramedics to walk off the job at 1 p.m. Thursday, but Iris Evans said she expects her cabinet colleagues will back her request to declare a public emergency and appoint a tribunal to force both sides to hammer out a deal. "We can't compromise that service and I'm sure by the time I take it to cabinet, they'll be on board," she said. "Depriving citizens of this service compromises health and safety." Calgary's 425 paramedics have been at loggerheads with the city over wages, seeking a 30% raise over three years while being offered 12% over the same period. Robb, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3421, said he expects the province will step in, but there was no choice but to take the dispute to the brink to find some common ground for their concerns.

There is a great antidepressant drug thats really amazing and the side effects are minimal. Effexor XR Prozax, paxil, and quite a few other ones I cant think on the top of my head, are ok and not everyone taking Prozac commits suicide or kills someone, it could be the dose, even the drug maynot be the right one for that person and the break down of serotonin in the brain--so they have to try a few and by that time they are so drugged/tired what can the person do. It takes about a month to actually see it working, so in that time frame what is the average paramedic supposed to do? Ativan, even that drug alone can knock you off your feet, dont drive unless you plan on saving a life which it wont be yours.

Oops sorry these ladies are NOT nurses, they are PCA's, and I should of said not all of them are like this. But you have no idea what I go through, hell I get along with the nurses, well some of them. That's ok one of the girls I know there said they dont like me they talk about me behind my back and it's really not nice. The older one(PCA-aka bath lady) she has grey hair she carries a grudge and every time I meet some new PCA on the floor even if they arent philipino, she's right there to tell them what happened to her after I got through with her at one time. My mother said to me back then when she could talk still, form sentences. She said the bath lady was pinching her and would tell her to shut up and smack her, another PCA told me the same thing but I was not to mention that she told me. I told the director and she was called in, but,before he did that, is when I was talking to my mom and I was on my cell phone, I saw someone standing in the creak of the door listening/door closed but not all the way. Who ever that was, you could hear her calling someone. I peeked around the corner and I could see her telling and pointing this way, so I stepped out and when she saw me, let's just say she was quick enough to tell the person to whom I was speaking of alot and that person went to find her I guess. Because that person comes barging into my mother's room and shoots her mouth off. I've been here 30 yrs blah, blah, bah and how dare you blah, blah, blah. I went past her and I said to the other lady, you stood at the door and heard everything I said, for that I'm telling the director. What is said in my mother's room is none of your business. The door was fully closed you could see a shadow standing there, thats when I opened to see who it was. There has been to much shit that goes on in that place, I get along best with . . . My Doctor's wife is philipino, she's really nice. I just found out 2 days ago that my cousin married a philipino. I may have not really thought that over but to be literally attacked because my mother had bruises up and down her arms and her legs. The PCA left her on her own, this was when my mother required a wheelchair because she cant walk now and the PCA didnt put her back into her wheelchair, so instead she went on her break and my mother fell. This happened 2 or 3 times and I'm frustrated seeing my mother with a cut hand or cuts to her face because the PCA left her like that. SO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE GOING TO TELL ME WHO DID THIS, nothing was done, no reprimand. Their bloody excuse was there isnt enough people for your mom, she needs to be moved to another wing. SO IF THAT WAS THE BLOODY REASON, WHY DID IT TAKE THEM SO LONG TO FIGURE THAT OUT after all those falls.

Men who work all day and complain all night, should remain single, we are NOT your maid, I believe in EQUAL sharing. I also believe that if the toilet lid was down and you used the bathroom, could you put the seat back to the way it was. :wink: When you ate off your dishes, putting them in the sink is ok, but leaving them for me to wash, is a NO NO. When we ask you to rub our feet, or massage our shoulders, dont hand me the back scratcher and say there, this will take care of any problems, unless I hit you over the head with it first. :twisted: Learn to wash your own clothes, clean up after yourself, woman live like princesses, men live like slobs. Whatever happened to getting the door for a lady, instead you just grab the door and walk right in. Men who dont hold the door for a lady is gay, are you gay?? Just some of my 2 cents worth . . . . Men who actually help and hold the door for any lady, should be hugged, kissed all over and congradulated.

I guess the root of this problem is with these girls is that sex feels good and condoms break. So now we have a pregnant girl and she wants to keep the baby, so whose going to provide for her? Welfare / AISH The fact they are on this is because some of them can get away with it by having more children. My sister in law back in her day did that, the more children she had the more money she got. But when it came down to it, they finally stepped in and said she had to get a job. I told them that's easy for you to do, but not for her. She doesnt have any work skills, so how is this going to happen for her? So when you truly look at it she had 7 bastard children and she never married. you can tell these people about keeping their legs closed and they will tell you to mind your own business. I said to this one girl, I pay taxes, so why in hell should I pay you to live when you can get a job and support yourself and the baby. I have a friend who is catholic and she is pro-choice, because she says; to many of them get an abortion and they can be botched up and most of them die. Tell me where in Calgary do they botch them up, where??

You wanna hear the BS I have to put up with my mother in the nursing home she lives in, I told them if for any reason should anything happen, even the small stuff . . . .I'm to be notified ASAP! When her lower denture went missing, I get a call from her friend who tells me did you know your mother's lower denture is missing. Well that's where I turned red as a lobster, I thought I am verbally going to kill someone and she said dont mention my name, because she is a companion to my mother and I pay her privately-long story. I get there and I am talking to my mom, she has dementia and I said where's your denture and she doesnt know of course but what heck I'm going to ask. I goto the front and I said, where's my mother's denture and they said they didnt know and I said oh,k when did this go missing and they said well it's been a 11 days. So I got real loud and said, doesnt it say in my mother's file that if anything should go wrong, even the small stuff you are to notify me either way and they just look at you dumb founded. I'm not a racist but the philipino's are the worse bunch, they took my mother's clothing to the wash and now 3 outfits are missing. I said what is wrong with you ppl, can you NOT read? On the cupboard door it says FAMILY DOES LAUNDRY. I caught this woman walking out the door with my mom's night gown and I said excuse me but where are you going with that, she said a patient down the hallway, about 5 doors down doesnt have any nightgowns. I said I dont care, there are other gowns she can wear, (they look exactly like hospital gowns). I have yet to talk to the director about this, because its pissing me off.

I wonder how many people that are in EMS that have something like this and not so much bullimia or anorexia. But something along the line of binge eating or starvation.

11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any. That's because Dust took the last pair. :wink:

Ok this has crossed my mind as well as my stomach and it is not all to common. Have any of your pt's you have had to deal with on a call that was a Binge eater? You get a call for a moderate to a very large frame sized person, they are claming they arent feeling very well and so you do your whole 9 yards of assessment and you ask them questions, sometimes they will tell you and some dont. The case is probably clear about other things, but really and truly like anorexia, binge eating is a hidden cause factor, where anorexia is easy to establish just by looking at these really very thin people and maybe not all the time. We all have a hidden secret, mine is binge eating, when to recognize when a family member is eating more than they should and for those who dont have any family, anybody die from this that you know of? I'm curious . . .

WTG Girl!!! I can just see him doing this and muttering along the lines of, those women :banghead: :laughing3: Big girls dont cry and niether should you spenac.

And a cutey to boot :wink: I think they are more than friends, so it was more of a kiss than anything and the way the poor cat is laying, I would say she or he isnt resisting. Now Michael, it's blowing in the ear that's very sexy, you've probably tried that one before, eh? :wink:

No, what it means is your old as dirt like me . . . read the 7th and 9th word, makes sense doesnt it?

A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, " When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip." So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm. Upon his return to his office after the mass, he found the following note on the door: 1) Sip the vodka, don't gulp. 2) There are 10 commandments, not 12. 3) There are 12 disciples, not 10. 4) Jesus was consecrated, not constipated. 5) Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass 6) We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C. 7) The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the spook. 8) David slew Goliath, he did not kick the $$=+ out of him. 9) When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey, don't say he was stoned off his ass. 10)We do not refer to the cross as the "Big T." 11)When Jesus broke the bread at the last supper he said, "take this and eat it for it is my body." He did not say " Eat me" . 12)The Virgin Mary is not called " Mary with the Cherry,. 13)The recommended grace before a meal is not: Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, Yeah God. 14)Next Sunday there will be a taffy pulling contest at St.Peter's not a peter pulling contest at St. Taffy's