mrhowell18 ([info]mrhowell18) wrote in [info]customers_suck,
@ 2004-08-10 11:53:00
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Dear Patients
I work at a hospital as a Unit Support Attendent. I am pretty much a golfer. So i really don't do all that bed pan and blood stuff but i had to one day because there was one girl tech and she was swamped. I forgot to add that i work in the E.R. Well in 5 minutes i had to help two disgruntled patients, i mean family members with the bedpan. Both went on about how slow the hospital is and both said there were going to another hospital next time. The funny part comes now. I was waiting for a lady to finish when in the room next to hers a 14 year old phsyc patient started talking to me. He aksed for my phone number. I laughed and then found out after waiting 20 minutes the lady couldn't even go so i got her off. I don't want to mock these people because their sick and i know i will them one of these days but i would to mention that waiting on people sucks.

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[info]lippypop
2004-08-10 10:14 am UTC (link)
After reading this four times, I'm still not entirely sure what's going on, here.

But I think you meant "go-fer," not "golfer."

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[info]vivian_shaw
2004-08-10 10:16 am UTC (link)
That threw me for a minute, too. I had a vision of a hospital attendant yelling "FORE!" and whacking a ball down the corridor.

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[info]lippypop
2004-08-10 10:21 am UTC (link)
. . . that would be disastrously hilarious!

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[info]theologydemon
2004-08-10 10:35 am UTC (link)
Ah, see that reminds me of the days when I used to have wheelchair races.

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[info]h0taru
2004-08-10 10:45 am UTC (link)
:: raises eyebrow ::

Run-on sentences are not your friend.

Clarity, however, is.

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[info]trenthamfamily
2004-08-10 10:50 am UTC (link)
Threatening to go to another hospital...that is one I haven't heard yet.

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[info]benatwork
2004-08-11 10:39 pm UTC (link)
I've had people threaten that before.. It's kind of sad. They usually get the hint that it's a very poor threat when I start listing off other facilities that are closer to them. Besides, chances are, we won't treat them here, anyways!

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[info]firynze
2004-08-10 10:55 am UTC (link)
I laughed and then found out after waiting 20 minutes the lady couldn't even go so i got her off.

I...I...I know what you meant here but my brain parsed that as something completely different. And very, very wrong. Especially since I'm very, very tired and that post was rather rambly and unclear.

*giggles like a schoolgirl*

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[info]palmir
2004-08-10 11:21 am UTC (link)
I read that, too. Maybe use of golf clubs was involved? I dunno.

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[info]yournailbunny
2004-08-10 03:27 pm UTC (link)
ROFL. I read it the saaaame way. No offense to the poster, I just thought it was damn cute/funny.

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[info]mrhowell18
2004-08-10 10:58 am UTC (link)
Listen all, stop screwing me over with the corrections and read it. I know i am not the best writer but aleast give me a chance.

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[info]legion600
2004-08-10 11:04 am UTC (link)
Nobody is "screwing you over" with corrections. They are pointing out that your writing lacks clarity, making it hard to understand. I read what you wrote four times in an effort to understand it.

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[info]whitneythegreat
2004-08-10 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Ditto. I understood maybe half.

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[info]cindy_ann
2004-08-10 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Me too. Like the part about getting her off threw me. I had to go back and re-read that she was talking about a bed pan or something.

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[info]lovehotel
2004-08-10 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Aha. I took it to mean she gave the lady an enema.

And, not to be a bitch or something ... but patients in ER will usually have rather good excuses for not being Mr & Mrs Sunshine and able to do things themselves.

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[info]angua
2004-08-10 11:17 am UTC (link)
No one is particularly screwing you over, they were all trying to make sense of it.

I admit I gave up after the word 'golfer'.

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[info]mrhowell18
2004-08-10 11:15 am UTC (link)
I quit you all suck

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Just to justify your leaving:
[info]palmir
2004-08-10 11:20 am UTC (link)
I quit [comma or period] you all suck [period] [I also hate you all for pointing out my glaring lack of ability to use punctuation, even though all you were doing was trying to parse what I'd written, since run-on sentences don't help with clarity, nor does using the wrong word and odd phrasing.]

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[info]lippypop
2004-08-10 11:38 am UTC (link)
Ooo, "parse!" New vocabulary word!

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[info]firynze
2004-08-10 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Hee. I like you. You're silly. And you also use the word "parse" in ordinary sentences. ^_^

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Re: Just to justify your leaving:
[info]palmir
2004-08-10 02:42 pm UTC (link)
I can't believe I got responses to that comment. And I can't believe that both of them are because I used "parse." Odd people, both of you. Make sure you have your chemical masks when the chlorine hits the gene pool.

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Re: Just to justify your leaving:
[info]firynze
2004-08-10 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Hey, the only people I ever hear using "parse" in ordinary conversation are myself and other classicists. I enjoy hearing (errr, reading) it!

Grammar: Whom Cares?

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[info]yak_blog
2004-08-10 05:52 pm UTC (link)
Heard "parse" all the time in my linguistics courses back in college.

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[info]thebutler
2004-08-10 06:55 pm UTC (link)
I'm a CS type, and the word does come up there a fair bit. I'm not sure if you can call CS conversations "ordinary", though...

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[info]yournailbunny
2004-08-10 03:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm not making assumptions about the poster but the way it came off makes it seem like English is not their first language.

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Re: Just to justify your leaving:
[info]palmir
2004-08-10 04:26 pm UTC (link)
I got the impression of a high school or college person (guessing more college, based on location in the story) who's a native of the US, and a natural English speaker. I've seen worse writing from that demographic (and older, for that matter), because they tend to not care, provided they get their message across. A quick look-see over at her journal confirms my suspicions (though it appears she's in high school, not college, and I think it's pretty cool for a high schooler to be working in the ER).

In this community, I tend to let a lot go (as opposed to [info]grammarpolice) but when I have to go to significant effort to understand a post due to the way it's written, then I have issues.

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[info]yournailbunny
2004-08-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
I wish you wouldn't have done that because I was happy in that fantasy world of mine that created a semi decent excuse for it. *Sniffle* You have broken me. I was trying so hard not to see the true horror.

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[info]seethingheathen
2004-08-11 02:49 am UTC (link)
I laughed and then found out after waiting 20 minutes the lady couldn't even go so i got her off.

o.O

I'm pissing myself laughing over here reading this. Bloody fuck, that's hilarious.

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