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1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your browser history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger. 4. There is great need for a sarcasm font. 5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? 6. Was learning cursive really necessary? 7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood. 8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died. 9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired. 10. Bad decisions make good stories. 11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. 12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again. 13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to. 14. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this – ever. 15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? **** it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away? 16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste. 17. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call. 18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well. 19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay. 20. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option. 21. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it. 22. I would rather try to carry 10 over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in. 23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text. 24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger. 25. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said? 26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters! 27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever. 28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year? 29. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far. 30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate bicyclists. 31. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is. 32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

Heard something similar from an EMT riding in Berlin. He told me that at New Year`s Eve, they would get dispatched to psychatric calls quite often. Over the years, they had quite a few elderly patients getting a fit, because all the fireworks draw them back to the bombings they had survived in WWII. @ crotchity: When you have really nothing to say, but a load of crap to provoke others, wouldn`t it be best to say nothing at all?

Crotchity, you truly are an asshole. I guess my father-in-law (Navy corpsman stationed in Vietnam with the USMC) was just pretending when he would hide under the covers every 4th of July because the fireworks made the flashbacks uncontrollable. It was even funnier when he couldn't take it any longer and overdosed, leaving behind a wife, 8 year old daughter and 5 year old son. Yup, must have been the pharmaceutical industry's fault, especially since he was on no meds. So how long until you make this thread about yourself and turn it into a racism thread? You truly are a worthless piece of shit.

Seriously, not knowing to turn on their stethoscopes???? Are they being deliberately stupid? They shouldn't be allowed to have that type of technology until they have proven they are out of the toddler stages.

Ok, my biggest mistake is this one About ayear out of medic school. Had a patiet in a paced rhythm but no pacer spikes visible on the lifepak 10. Gave 100 mgs of lidocaine and they nearly arrested. Was humbled in front of the physician at the ER. One more - I didn't have to learn this lesson but I saw it in action and it nearly cost me my job. Take responsibility for a mistake. Three man crew. 2 medics in back for a eclamptic patient. She starts to seize. I pull the narc box out per the medics orders. I open it for him. He then proceeds to give what at the time was Valium 5mg. She eventually stops seizing and we arrive at the ER. Go in the ER, give report and return to the ambulance. EMT says "Why did you guys give her morphine?" I said we didn't. Medic who gave the med looks at the syringe and goes white. I imagine I'm white as a ghost too. Medic says "Let's get out of here, I'll take care of it later" I went NO FREAKING WAY, that's a med error and we need to report it. He refuses says I gave him the wrong syringe. I tell him he's full of crap. I walk into the ER, find the doctor and explain what happened. The doc says "no wonder she has pinpoint pupils". I return to the ambulance and the medic is way pissed. Silent treatment all the way back to the city. I request a meeting with the supervisor. WE meet up at headquarters and my medic partner blames it on me. The supervisor asks who pushed the med and the other medic said that he did push it. So into separate rooms we go, one supervisor for the medic in question and one for me. Our stories don't match. In the end, the physician called the station and said that they had a honest medic on staff (ME) and that the patient suffered no long lasting effects from the error. The Emt said that the other medic just was going to "fix it" and that really sealed that medics fate on this incident. The other medic was removed from duty and ended up getting fired for something else that I cannot remember. We never worked together again and he never talked to me again. Not a very big loss if you ask me but had I not have stood up and took responsibility for my part and the other medic refusing to take responsibility for his part, it could have ended up very differnetly. Always take responsibility for what you do, your integrity is very easy to lose and nearly impossible to get back. So personal responsibility is not taught much at all.