Another one!My Work experience was in the 'Rehab' ward for the local mental hospital (My own dumbass fault for not submitting the application until the end and getting the shite jobs) , and it was terrible and depressing! I'd seen One Flew over the Cuckoos nest as preperation, and mentioned this to the Head Nurse guy, so he took us on a trip to see the electro-therapy dept, and we got to see some poor old woman get 2000 volts between her lobes, and flop about on the bed like a beached fish! The rest of the week was spent loading up pots with plastic slime, and putting kiddies chalk into boxes - so I was not so much helping the paitients with their rehab, but more being rehabbed myself! Plus the nutters (politically incorrect i know, but WTF we're all bumgay right?) were fighting over the heat sealer for the slime, and one guy kept trying sell me his car (I was 15)..and some of them had very bizarre ways of communicating using grunts, squeals and drooling but still managed to put bets on at the bookies (They got paid for their work @ 1.50 per hour ..hey maybe they post here too!)...so their rehab was going great! My friend Steven also gave one of the patients a sip of his coke, and fucked up his medication, so he got put into restraints for the afternoon! My how we laughed once we got over the guilt...
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