#and the ONE TIME i mutter leeloo dallas multipass under my breath they hear me and LATCH ONTO IT INSTANTLY

[marmotsomsierost]

You know how people with dementia will sometimes just read out loud anything they see in front of them, and how sometimes they're not even really processing what they're reading, it's just that some part of their brain goes 'oh hey words, i know what do to with words, hey mouth, got some input for ya!' and it just comes out?

Well, sometimes there are little whiteboards posted near the ambulance entrances or staging areas for communication between various entities, and sometimes they are unwise enough to leave whiteboard pens in close proximity (or sometimes you have Pockets of Doom and may or may not have your own, ssh).

And sometimes you waltz in to an ed and see three gurneys already waiting for triage and you go welp. Time to settle in. And your partner goes 'we better get coffee after this, i am tired' so you follow up with 'so hhhchave a nap'.

And then you notice someone has doodled a little celebratory kangaroo in a corner of the whiteboard, so you take the marker and write "Hokay, so..." in the other corner, and your partner demands you draw a badger alongside it, and while you google to try and remember what the badger looks like, you hear this gentle old person voice say 'okay, so. Hokay. Hokay so.'

This is how you reduce about a third of the people in four ambulance crews and the triage nurse in earshot into gigglefits at 0230.

it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet