Douchebag ruined our evening, or why you can't be too careful

[Jester]

On FB status, you stated to two of my friends (one who's pregnant and one who just had a liver transplant), that you make excellent virgin cocktails. So there.

Apparently I lied to someone.

[Seshat]

I hope it's to us, otherwise you lied to a pregnant woman and someone who'd just had a liver transplant.

And that's a heinous crime.

[crazylegs]

2 pens in my messenger bag, one in Rob's coat, one in Phlip's messenger bag, one in the kitchen, one in the bedside stand.

If you can get more, please carry more than that. Sometimes the truck takes longer than the 8 minutes those two pens could last for and you'd have nothing left to take.

[AccountingDrone]

You may want to put one in the bathroom cabinet too, if feasible?

I suppose I could, but in an 800 sq foot house [20'x40' single level] where the main living area is a single room I am rarely more than a 10 second dash for someone still breathing to grab a pen. Since we refuse to bring in any mushrooms or foods with mushrooms or 'natural flavor' that has been determined to include mushroom powder me getting something that will give me issues is limited to medication, and I am also anal compulsive about my meds so the probability that I will get exposed to penicillin is restricted to being in a hospital. Home is about as safe as we can make it so I really am not overly worried about getting hit with something I am allergic to.

[Seshat]

I know exactly what you mean about home being 'safer', allergen wise, than a hospital.

(Read my wristband. It's red. It's allergen alert. And keep that penicillin away from me.)

[AccountingDrone]

I know exactly what you mean about home being 'safer', allergen wise, than a hospital.

(Read my wristband. It's red. It's allergen alert. And keep that penicillin away from me.)

Back when I was a young sprog having my first run in with strep throat [I was still young enough that I was on eye dropper dispensed medications] I was given a dose of penicillin in the base dispensary over in Germany. I popped a rash, and the doc told my mom that he was marking my files as allergic to penicillin. Not a problem, I avoided penicillin for about 20 years, until I was in a hospital over in the US and having issues with an infection I picked up in hospital, so the doc showed up and wrote out an in hospital scrip for penicillin for the nurse to give me. So I told him I was allergic, he asked me how I knew and I told him that my mom told me. He informed me that he had gone to med school and he rather doubted my Mom did, so the nurse toddles off and gets a vial of penicillin, and shoves a syringeload into my IV. Whereupon I got this rash on the hand the IV was plugged into, I started feeling like someone turned the heating in the room up to about 200 and that is the last I remember for probably an hour. Oddly enough, my chart immediately got changed to add penicillin allergy ... and I got that fairly expensive stay for free ...

[MoonCat]

He informed me that he had gone to med school and he rather doubted my Mom did,

Sexist, stupid, arrogant and unbelievably ignorant of him. I hope that was the last time he displayed that attitude to a patient. What an idiot.

I am allergic to penicillin, too, and a doctor once told me that such allergies don't go away when you get older - they often get worse. So I stay far away from that stuff. Sulfa drugs, too.

[mathnerd]

Thankfully my list of allergies is short. Tomatoes, Eggplant, Codeine. Unfortunately, the tomato thing is extremely sensitive and severe. Even the tiniest amounts trigger anaphylaxis.

[Jester]

Also unfortunately, tomatoes are insidious, and are everywhere. Which I didn't realize until I had a friend with such a severe allergy to them. Seriously, outside of Asian restaurants, you've got to be so guarded if you're allergic to tomatoes. Barbecue places, Italian places, Mexican places....these are among the toughest for her to eat at.

[Jester]

A customer told me about this last week, and I just remembered it. Thought it was very appropriate for this thread.

Some people are angels. Some people are scumbags. Hope for the angels, but always, always, always plan for the scumbags.

[mathnerd]

Jester, watching that makes me wonder if anybody saw anything and just didn't say anything. Of course, we left shortly after the one friend started feeling bad, so maybe there wasn't time for anybody to say anything, but still, it makes you think.

[Jester]

To be fair, the guy in the video was about as subtle as an anvil to the head dropped by Wile E. Coyote. I would imagine most guys who engage in this type of revolting behavior are far smoother and slicker than that.

To use a very poor analogy, I know that with my training as a magician, if I really wanted to and really practiced the move, I could probably spike someone's drink in a full bar without anyone seeing anything. Possibly even with the victim right there at the time. Luckily, I rely on my charm to make the ladies feel woozy. (Which may explain a few things, actually....)

My guess is that if anyone saw something, they were left wondering if they saw anything, and if so, what it was they saw.

After all, it hardly seems like coincidence that these guys are almost always busted after the fact, and rarely, if ever, caught in the act.

[mathnerd]

Fair point. The guy in the video was about as subtle as an air raid siren.

[Jester]

More from the same show, with results that should make you smile. I did.

[mathnerd]

Thankfully there are still some good people out there. I have no doubt that you would intervene, Jester, if you saw something, but people like you and the lady in that second video are few and far between.