Is this weekend hell for anybody else?

Subject: same here

I was JUST thinking that so far almost everything that could go wrong today has. It must be the planets/stars.

hot tired and stupid customers didnt even bother to cancle apoinments. only after they got call they were like oh i dont need the services any more.

probs got something to do with your zodiac sign.

ugh, nothing worse than having a friend get that drunk so that they're unbearable or, worse, sick.

don't wreck my evening because you can't handle your booze.

trixieNYC wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]ugh, nothing worse than having a friend get that drunk so that they're unbearable or, worse, sick.

don't wreck my evening because you can't handle your booze.

exactly. mind you I was out w/ her the night before as well. let's just say by the end of the evening I felt like I had just picked up my papa from the nursing home for a night on the town. There was no way I would let her go home in the shape she was in w/o some food in her stomach. went to Manatus (24 hour diner on Bleeker) ordered up some burgers and spent the entire time wiping ketchup from her face and hands....I mean REALLY now, how old are we?! like I said, weekend COULD have been hell, I made sure to take control of it..."I'M LEAVING YOU"!!!

worst night of my life, ever, was the night i was designated driver for a bridal "party". in my new car (i mean, the car had 100 miles on it), where we went to the beaach and a friend of the bride's--over 30, i might add--got so wasted we ended up at a gas station with everyone, but me, helping her. because a: i have no patience for this kind of shit. and b: because i'm terrified of vomiting. (true, it's a real fear that many suffer from.) i ended up in the back seat, with another girl driving, rocking back and forth and covering my ears with my fingers.

and i won't even get into the "barfing in the taxi" night because it will make me insane. (because rule #1: never get into a cab with a drunk friend who says "i promise i won't barf.")

worst night ever involves that huge blackout from 2-3 years ago. The short story includes me commandeering a Volvo after I couldn't get an ambulance or taxi to take my friend to the airport. Then I helped perform a procedure on her spine when the anesthesiologist (plus intern) said "you....friend...come over here and scrub in".

It involved lots of needles, blood and chaos.

I can't give you all of the details (sparing my friend's privacy), but my friend was sick. She had a spinal tap 2 days before. There were complications and in the middle of the night of the blackout she started getting much worse. By the morning we were calling for an ambulance every 30 minutes and they had no idea when/if we would get one.

At 7am we heard her upstairs neighbor walking around and she said she thought they had a car. I went upstairs, introduced myself and they agreed to take us to the hospital in their Volvo with my friend laying flat out in the back of the wagon.

The hospital tried to not let me in with her as they were under lockdown. I ran around to another entrance, said I was her sister and talked my way in.

Blood was EVERYWHERE. Flies, too. They were on generator and at one point they were examining her with a flashlight. Lot's o' crazies in the ER - plus overweight people who tried walking up/down too many flights of stairs....plus people in bar fights and all kinds of strange stuff.

So, Dr. A (head of the department) comes down to fix her back with all kinds of needles in her spine, her throat (she was dehyrdated and they couldn't get blood from her arm) and weird shit.

I told her that the first rule was not to touch any blood that wasn't her own. She said I was in charge of keeping the flies (several) off of the tray of instruments.

At one point Dr. A and his assistant needed a hand and there were no nurses or other staff available.

"You...friend...come over here....go scrub your hands and hold her while I stick this huge needle in her spine".

Ay yi yi.

I'm very good in an emergency and kept my shit together. When it was all over I got dizzy for a second, but that's it.

good friend indeed! Your story is also scary vis-a-vis this week's temperature predictions. I hope it's not a foretelling of our future with substandard electrical grids!