MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Tragic but true…My partner and I (paramedics) attended a boy of about 9 who been the victim of a hit and run driver.
As you might expect the boy had severe injuries and was unconscious and we needed to pay special care in respect of any spinal injuries, which were extremely likely in this case.
One of the assessments you can make to confirm spinal injury when a male patient cannot communicate with you is the presence of a priapism – a continually erect penis.
The boy appeared to have a priapism visible through his clothing and my partner told me he would confirm it by discreet touch with the back of his hand.
“Yeah” says my partner “priapism confirmed”.
An assisting police officer asked me what a priapism was and I told her what it was and what it meant.
A bystander who had been watching put a complaint in to the minister about two paramedics “taking the mickey out of a dying boy’s erection and touching his penis” and also complained about “the copper who didn’t do them for sexual assault”.
It was more exasperating than funny given the tragic outcome, but no – we don’t get our jollies touching the private parts of dying people.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 13:53, Reply)
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