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FTEC - Tuesday, 06/29
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drywitmartini.livejournal.com"Where do we keep the lollipops?"
He asked four times, each increasingly louder, until he got an answer. Persuading nurses to tell him what he wanted to hear instead of asking why he wanted to know used to be a lot easier.
"Because I'm hungry. Can't a man get hungry in the 21st century?"
Apparently lollipops were not considered a legitimate replacement for actual lunch.
"If I eat enough of them," Hawkeye reasoned, "I'll be on such a sugar high I won't even notice until it's too late and I crash into what we professionals call a 'sugar coma' where I won't even care that I didn't get a pastrami on rye with mustard by 2:30."
By 2:30, he had a sandwich. Pastrami on rye with mustard arrived at 2:25 along with a pickle and a cup of coffee.
Maybe his powers of persuasion weren't completely lost after all.
He asked four times, each increasingly louder, until he got an answer. Persuading nurses to tell him what he wanted to hear instead of asking why he wanted to know used to be a lot easier.
"Because I'm hungry. Can't a man get hungry in the 21st century?"
Apparently lollipops were not considered a legitimate replacement for actual lunch.
"If I eat enough of them," Hawkeye reasoned, "I'll be on such a sugar high I won't even notice until it's too late and I crash into what we professionals call a 'sugar coma' where I won't even care that I didn't get a pastrami on rye with mustard by 2:30."
By 2:30, he had a sandwich. Pastrami on rye with mustard arrived at 2:25 along with a pickle and a cup of coffee.
Maybe his powers of persuasion weren't completely lost after all.