South Carolina Emergency Room

Fate leads me into some funny circumstances.

These things can only happen to me.

I was not hurt or sick, but without going into the reason why, I found myself in South Carolina on Saturday night, waiting for a cab, in front of the emergency room of hospital.

I was pissed off because I didn't want to be there, waiting for that cab, which was late.

I was there a long time.

The people who came in and out of the emergency room though... they were very interesting.

I saw people bleeding, and people who got carried in unconscious.

I saw babies crying, and drunk people staggering around yelling. I saw an old woman in a wheel chair who didn't know where she was.

But the most astonishing and funniest thing was a conversation I heard.

Three kids about 16 years old with heavy heavy southern accents. One kid was big and fat, about 16 years old, wearing a straw fishing hat with the ends poking out all over the place like huck Finn. The next kid -skinny as a rail with a straw cowboy hat and feathers on it, and this little kid who must have been about 10. He looked pretty normal.

Here's the conversation;

Fat Kid: "Oooooh is she gonna be mad atchyooo!"

Cowboy kid: "Why the hell should she be mad at me? I didn't tell him to eat it!"

Normal kid: "I cain't believe he didn't spit it out!"

Fat Kid: "Well he's the crazy ass who ate it!"

Cowboy kid: "It ain't mah fault! I didn't make him eat it!"

Fat kid: "She is gonna be so pissed atchyoo!"

Normal kid: "I really thought he was gonna spit it out... cain't believe he ate it!"

The cab came. I got in.

I have no idea what the hell that was all about.