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Everyone's a f***ing comedian.



Yep, you heard it, there's nothing like a bad situation to bring out the idiot best in people. You'll be surprised at what people laugh about when they're on the phone to me. Often callers aren't aware of how serious some conditions can become, some people are just naturally stupid.

Here are some things that I consider to be funny:

Things that I fail to see the humour in include:


  • 18 year old students called Tabitha, from the Home Counties, in stitches because their friend Araminta has taken seventeen temazepam and can't stop walking into walls and talking about penguins
  • A drunk woman chuckling about her two year old boy who can only walk in circles and has "forgot all his words" since a garden gate fell onto his head at a family barbecue three days previously
  • The babysitter who accidentally gave her 11 year old charge two tramadol for her period pain instead of paracetamol, and finds it endlessly amusing that the child in question keeps scratching her own nose and falling over
  • The father who rubbed Karvol on his baby's face and was very entertained at the fact that "The skin is all red, like he's pissed or something!"

and finally:


  • The mother who sat and watched her toddler drink the contents of a Glade liquid air-freshener, and giggled because "her breath smells exactly like lavender!" When asked why she'd allowed this to happen, she exclaimed "It's made of natural ingredients!"
*sigh*

I fear for the human race, I truly do!


Darwin had an angle on this......

I have "Oh Darwin. Where Art Thou?" written on the front of my KSF training file! :D

I actually thought the first one was funny, but maybe it's "just the way ya tell 'em"?

I reckon if you take the safety labels off things, the stupid people will eventually wipe themselves out. Unfortunatly, it seems they're stupidity also affects their children. It really does make you wonder..

Unfortunately there is a dedicated movement that is preventing the terminally stupid removing themselve from the gene pool.

This movement is the Health & Safety movement.

H&S is reversing all of Darwins work by ensuring that drowning in the deep end of the gene pool is becoming harder due to it's ever shallowing nature.

SD
;-)

Hmmm... a fellow minion. Glad to see more of re-Direct's fortunate few on the blogging scene, telling the story from our side of the fence.

Hmm.. why did my other comment show up as being posted by 'Ax'? Weird guy. It is obviously I, the minion, who writes odes to Darwin on my training manuals!

MMW - Yep I retold it in a more amusing fashion, but hearing an 18 year old's "friends" laugh as she sinks into a coma is scary business! The real thing wouldn't make for good bloggage :D

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Angela & ECP - Aye, all this Health and Safety allows the witless to survive well past what could be expected. I won't even bother with the story of the girl who tried to install her own electric cooker to save a few quid... ouch!

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Dory - It's my duty to expose the madness! I may have to set up another blog entirely to expose the nonsense on *our* side of the phones. Bloody Transformation bollocks and the ensuing chaos!


Sick Sad, Underpaid Minion signing off to email HR about my lack of pay again!

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