I got an early start on a long, long day. Luckily, I am still feeling pretty damned good, especially for one who has spent 12 hours working today.... I actually came home three times since that first call at 07:15; the first time I was home for ten minutes, the second time I was paged before I even got home and the third time I got to stay home almost an hour! The night tech is there now, though, and she can handle most everything that might come up. I did do a lot of interesting exams today, so it was fun because of that. But I also spent most of my time waiting on patients. OK, the hare-lip joke. I thought that everyone in the world had heard this one, but wrong! By my count, 20% of my readers haven't, so here it is, as well as I can remember it... This occurred back in the old days out on the fresh prairie. This little boy was about five years old when his big brother pokes him in the eye with a stick. Well, they were poor folks, and couldn't afford a glass eye, so the boy's dad carved him a wooden eye and painted it up so's you could hardly tell that it wasn't real. But the little boy knew that it wasn't real, and he grew very shy and sensitive about his eye. When they were in high school, his brother talked him into going to a barndance. Almost everyone was dancing, except for our hero and a girl with a hare lip. She was very shy and she didn't usually come to dances either. Well, the boy's brother noticed that the hare-lipped girl The boy protested to his brother, saying that she wouldn't want to dance with him because of his wooden eye. "Nonsense!", the brother said, "She won't notice even! Besides, she's got a hare lip, so she knows what it's like to be different!" So the boy shyly goes up to the girl, hat in hand, and asks her if she would dance with him. The girl was thrilled! This was the first time a boy had ever said anything nice to her, and even asked her to dance! Of course she would love to dance! "Would I? Would I?" she exclaimed. "Hare lip! Hare lip!" he retaliated. And with that, I'm off to shower and bed, it's been a long day, and tomorrow will be another one, I'm afraid.
wasn't dancing, and he talked his brother into asking her to dance, since it was obvious that nobody else was going to ask her to dance, and nobody else was going to dance with the shy boy, either.