Waters here from the Waters Wake Up call.
This morning, when to Wednesday, I asked, have you ever been that guy?
Like me, for instance, who left cooked veggies in the microwave all weekend?
Yeah, I've been that guy once with a bag of popcorn.
Did this
involve a microwave?
Yeah, I was too tired and couldn't read the difference between popcorn and potato.
Potato cooks for seven minutes when popcorn cooks for a minute and thirty.
Yeah, right.
The burn, smoke, smell.
It was in the microwave.
I think it might still be in there two years later.
Oh
lord.
I think the microwave was draining oil and steam for the next six
months.
And what is it about popcorn?
Fish, I can understand the smell.
Broccoli or vegetables, because they don't smell that great anyway.
But when you're talking about freshly cooked, perfectly timed popcorn, it's so appetizing and you gotta have the popcorn.
It's so good.
But then when you burn it, it's the worst.
I
know how you feel though.
I have left them in there for a day, just a few hours.
Yeah, not a weekend?
No, not a weekend.
It's Ivan again.
What's going on Ivan again?
I am that guy in a
sense that I'm the guy in the bar, or in a crowd of people, and I'll go just loud enough for everybody to hear me.
Not to talk politics or anything, but then I'll voice my opinion.
You know, I think these days
it's the most dangerous to do something like that.
It is, it's risky business.
No kidding, so what would you say?
Well, I am just something
political or...
I was
about to commend you for being totally diplomatic, but then boom, out it came.
Well, I'd love to talk politics all day he said sarcastically, but
I gotta
go.
Oh, we were doing many things, and I discovered it was National ER Nurses Day, and I thought I'd open it up to all nurses we paid tribute to.
I am outnumbered in my family by nurses.
Are you?
Have you ever been
attacked?
Uh,
no, but I get real good...
stories during the holiday season.
I also get interesting text messages.
I'd love to hear anything you have to tell me.
I have a friend who's an ER nurse.
In the morning, my name's Jen, and there's a million Jen.
Sure.
And one morning I woke up super early, and I look, and it says, hey, did you see my sight patient on the corner?
And I'm assuming she meant to text that to a different Jen.
Yeah, they were looking for a patient that had escape, and I was caught in the middle.
I texted her back, you got the wrong Jen.
This sounds like a really great story next time we see each other.
That's a freaky text message to get right away in the morning.
Yeah.
Funny.
And then this is all sorts of stuff that I get teched at mistakenly, like anybody sees her venture in any of the exam
rooms.
Maybe they're the psych patients' teeth.
Hey, Mike,
how are you all here?
Hey, how are you all?
I got a nurse story.
This just happened Saturday night.
OK.
There was a wedding reception in our Legion, and I went back just to see who all was back there, and my nurse was there, and I've known her parents for 60 years or better, and this gal's always been off the wall.
She's a heck of a nurse.
And here a while back, I got a little lump on my finger right above my knuckle on my ring
finger.
Okay.
I went to her and I said, I know you're not working, but what the heck is this lump?
She said, well, it's kind of a stupid little sis.
She said, just take a hammer and hit it.
I said, how much did you have to drink?
Right.
And she says,
She says, oh, you big baby, you've hit your hand.
Finger before with a hammer.
And I says, yeah, but not on purpose.
Well,
right.
You've got
to be crazy to do that.
She says, you big baby, she grabbed my hand, laid it on the table while they had it decorated for fall.
And there was a basket of gourds and little pumpkins there.
Right.
She picked up a gourd, smacked my finger with it.
I said, you are out of your 11th gourd.
She says, is it gone?
And I said, yeah.
She says, thank you.
Yeah, now who's out of there ever lovin' Gord by getting hit
in the
finger by a Gord?
Gord by a Gord.
That was so funny, though.
She grabbed my head, and he bit baby, and she just smacked her with that little Gord.
Yeah.
And she's just gone, ain't it?
I said, yeah.
Yeah.
She's a medical professional.
The fact that you didn't listen to her in the first place just
explains who you
are, Bill.
Yeah, and she's such a funny gal anyway.
That's great.
She's my nose I go through all the time.
Yeah.
She's just a character.
That's
awesome.
That's a great story.
Great
story,
Bill.
Well, thanks, man.
You have yourself a fantastic day.
I do, Mr. Cowmilker.
Yeah, but
I never get her because she's with a different doctor, I think, right?
Well, that's too
bad.
She should switch to Kettle Camp.
Great guy.
Great doctor.
Well, everybody
I've seen up there.
Fantastic.
She's been leaving the 534 extra because they're so far behind and we need money so she's been
going in very early.
Such hard workers and that's not an easy job.
I don't know firsthand obviously but it can't be a can't be an easy job.
My problem would be they'd **** me up the patient I tell them to screw off and yeah.
Right.
Yeah I know I'd be the same way.
And she doesn't complain about that people that come in and just just like that last lady from California you
know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The daughter comes in, her raise is held, and you gotta put up with her crap.
She complains about that sometimes.
It's
tough working with the public, but if you're a nurse working with sick people, imagine that.
Right.
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
10.