One more then.
For my 21st birthday my sister presented me with a nicely wrapped steamed up jam jar half filled with a brown sludge.
She told me very firmly that under no circumstances should I or anyone, open it. I was a bit too pissed to be intrigued and just forgot it.
The evening in the pub progressed into a full on delirium fest and at some point I remembered my jar and became determined to open it.
At the moment of truth, my hand beginning to twist off the lid, it was wrestled from me and spirited away by sis and her workmate.

In the morning she told me what was in there and why it was a matter of public health that the contents not be released.

You see, my sis was a dental nurse back then and had given to me, in a moment of inspiration, the contents of the dentist's aspirator bag- bone, blood, tooth fragments, pus, saliva, lumps of rotted gum tissue and much much more, I'm sure you can imagine.

It was my best birthday ever.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 16:22, 6 replies)

I'm struggling to imagine the family relationship which allows this to be an appropriate present

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 16:31, closed)

A shared sick sense of humour.
You just have to be there I suppose, it actually seems fairly normal to me but then we've grown up that way, quirky and occasionally evil.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 16:50, closed)

There's something wrong with your sister.
Also, aren't there laws governing the proper disposal of such matter? I'm sure I remember, on starting work in a hospital, getting a very serious talk on why we shouldn't ever be tempted to take anything out of the bins destined for the furnaces.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 17:16, closed)

Shhhh, yes.
Of course, medical professionals never ever do anything that is prohibited by laws, local rules and regs or just morality in general, oh no.

For the record, she's out there practicing now and no longer a dental nurse. She may stay within the law but her horrible sense of humour remains just so.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 17:22, closed)

Working at Alder Hey,
I expect.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 18:19, closed)

Working on your teeth,
I expect.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 18:56, closed)