A sense of decorum... how's yours?
By Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
September 3, 2009 12:49pm CST
Yesterday, at work, a patient informed the ward that I was "the only one of you with a sense of decorum". Whilst those of you who have had any dealings with me will know this to be a totally accurate assessment,
my colleagues found it amusing...
even more so when he continued with " Only a few of you are normal - the rest of you have worse psychiatric problems than I do!!" (Please note, I am NOT, repeat NOT belittling nor ridiculing and form of psychiatric problem) Anyway, how's your sense of decorum???
(BTW my husband really, really did go to school with someone called Richard Oram)
my colleagues found it amusing... even more so when he continued with " Only a few of you are normal - the rest of you have worse psychiatric problems than I do!!" (Please note, I am NOT, repeat NOT belittling nor ridiculing and form of psychiatric problem) Anyway, how's your sense of decorum???
(BTW my husband really, really did go to school with someone called Richard Oram)2 people like this
2 responses
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
3 Sep 09
Seriously??? Good heavens, how uncouth are the people you work with then? They must make rutting pigs look like saints! 
If I had any more decorum running through my veins I'd be gushing like a fountain! I never flick my boogers if someone is within viewing distance, I always say "excuse me" when I loudly burp at black tie dinners; and I never allow more that half an inch of my underpants to creep out of my jeans at any time. It doesn't get any more refined than that! As for my level of psychiatric fitness, it's not my bloody fault if 99% of people I meet are not right in the head is it? Jeez, it's not easy being so normal in such a topsy-turvy world. 
If I had any more decorum running through my veins I'd be gushing like a fountain! I never flick my boogers if someone is within viewing distance, I always say "excuse me" when I loudly burp at black tie dinners; and I never allow more that half an inch of my underpants to creep out of my jeans at any time. It doesn't get any more refined than that! As for my level of psychiatric fitness, it's not my bloody fault if 99% of people I meet are not right in the head is it? Jeez, it's not easy being so normal in such a topsy-turvy world. 1 person likes this
@Wizzywig (7847)
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4 Sep 09
Do you have any evidence to suggest that a rutting pig might NOT be a saint? (St Porkus the Poker springs to mind...) I can't decide whether this is a compliment or an insult from you... so I'm going with compliment! ...and today, a different patient said it was nice to finally find someone with a bit of sense - so, I must be losing my touch!
No, I don't flick within viewing distance either... and especially not within wipe-it-down-their-back distance. I dont attend black tie dinners these days but, passing wind is not a problem since, in the places I frequent, no-one would notice. Would that be out of the top of your jeans or out of the leg when you have removed both underpants and jeans in one move and forgotten by the time you wore the jeans the next day? You are so right - there is such madness in the world - ; I mean people who dye their hair the colour of hair - what's the point of that? people who walk at a sedate pace in the corridors?? people who dont dance to the music in supermarkets??? or think you shouldn't jump in puddles past a certain chronological age All barking!
...and today, a different patient said it was nice to finally find someone with a bit of sense - so, I must be losing my touch!
No, I don't flick within viewing distance either... and especially not within wipe-it-down-their-back distance. I dont attend black tie dinners these days but, passing wind is not a problem since, in the places I frequent, no-one would notice. Would that be out of the top of your jeans or out of the leg when you have removed both underpants and jeans in one move and forgotten by the time you wore the jeans the next day? You are so right - there is such madness in the world - ; I mean people who dye their hair the colour of hair - what's the point of that? people who walk at a sedate pace in the corridors?? people who dont dance to the music in supermarkets??? or think you shouldn't jump in puddles past a certain chronological age All barking!1 person likes this
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
27 Sep 09
Thank you for the BR Wizzy and my apologies for the late reply here. I've been having a bit of a mylot break is all. I was long overdue for a slump and I think I'll be a little less active from this point forward. Slumps aren't much fun and I want to avoid more of them if I can! 
