Truth, butt pain, Darvocet

[wdfifteen]

It wasn’t a great day from the beginning. After enduring a colonoscopy last week my doc told me I needed to do something about them hemorrhoids. Said there is a new fix that was quick and easy and the alternative was eventual surgery, which is not quick and easy. I went to the web site and watched a video of what he proposed to do to me. (CRH O'Regan System Video Demonstration ) I don’t know why, but I made an appointment.
They say it doesn’t hurt, it’s just a sensation of pressure. He told me I could take a Tylenol to ease any discomfort. I love the euphemisms the medical profession uses. I guess having a mule stand on your foot could be described as pressure, but it still hurts. After a couple of hours at home waiting for the Tylenol to take care of the “discomfort” I said “f-that” and washed a couple of Darvoset down with a glass a wine. It was the last wine in the house, so about an hour later I convinced my keeper to take me to the store to get some more because there was still a mule’s foot way up my azz and I could still feel it.
So I’m suffering in line behind a woman with a 5 year old and she bends over to get something out of her cart and I notice a tat on her lower back and in a fit of drug induced cheerfulness I say, “Nice stamp!” and she says thanks. Then she pulls out her WIC coupons and starts paying for her food. I asked her how much the stamp like that cost. She told me $120 dollars. So in the same state of drug induced cheerfulness I innocently ask, “How come you can spend $120 on a tat and can’t support your child?”
It just came out - I don’t know why.
The whole place got quiet. She left without a word. Nobody said anything until I left.
They say “In vino veritas” but mix a little wine with a Darvocet kicker and a severe pain in your butt and you just get, well … even more truthful.

[mikester]

you my friend are now immortal.

With a mules foot up your arse.

[island911]

Awesome!

never under estimate the truth that a pain in the ass can blurt.

[widgeon13]

She'll remember this day for a while.

That's funny!

[Zeke]

Things like that need to be said every day.

And I don't have any wine and Darvoset excuses for what comes out of my mouth.

[stomachmonkey]

My friend Matt's wife has a couple of tattoos. She's had them since before they were married.

They have a couple of kids, 2 and 5.

Matt had a nice 6 figure income. Owned his first home at 25.

Over the last couple of years his business dried up, he had to declare bankruptcy, lost the house, moved in with the mother in law, had to cancel his health insurance, then his wife's, finally the kids.

He died in February this year just shy of his 40th birthday with nothing to leave to his wife and young kids.

Don't judge what you don't know.

[cgarr]

Back in the day you could count on one hand the number of people on assistance in your town and on the other you could count the number of fat kids in school!

[9dreizig]

Did it ever occur to you that the tat was from her dancing days and now stays home to raise the kids?

[island911]

geez . .a couple of wet blankets.

Clearly he knows that he wasn't thinking clearly. ...did ya miss that part?

[syncroid]

I can see both sides of the coin on this one but it still made me laugh heartilly.

[Icemaster]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Don't judge what you don't know.

There are exceptions in life, however I'd bet there's an XBox connected to a 42" LCD in the home of the young lady Patrick encountered.

[foxpaws]

wdfifteen - don't judge the individual until you know the whole story...

island911 - wdfifteen may have been stoned on wine and darvocet.. but at the end of his post he still claimed it as 'truthful...' and he is now coherent enough to spell hemorrhoids correctly...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

it's so easy to get out of cycles.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by island911

geez . .a couple of wet blankets.

Clearly he knows that he wasn't thinking clearly. ...did ya miss that part?

Wrong, his condition did not cause him to think "differently", it simply removed his inhibition to verbalize what he would have thought any other day.

He said it himself, the truth (as he interprets it).

[island911]

uh. . his mouth was being true to his thought-bubble. --that's part of why it's funny.

sheesh.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Icemaster

There are exceptions in life.....

We all know there are people who game the system, acknowledged.

Do you believe the majority on food stamps are dead beats and the truly needy are the exception?

[Hugh R]

I am amused at the street panhandlers here in Portland, OR with cell phones.

[foxpaws]

Hugh - street panhandlers can make a ton of money - in SF - some actually commute into the city from the 'burbs and make hundreds of dollars a day - they can easily afford that cell phone.

Once again - the surface isn't the whole story.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Do you believe the majority on food stamps are dead beats and the truly needy are the exception?

Yes.

Lots of food stamps used to pay at the local organic ($$$) food store. Frequently with 3-4 kids (all playing with their Nintendo DS games) in tow.

My dept. did adopt-a-family for Christmas one year (buy presents for the kids, gift wrap them, etc.). Family of 5 drove up in a Benz to pick up their goodies.

Yes. The truly needy are the exception.

[Hugh R]

Exactly, which is why I don't give them any money.