It wouldn't be a Saturday night in the ER without tears, a fight and the drunk who pees himself.

Work tonight was extremely entertaining. Will I be able to convey that? Probably not, but here is my feeble attempt.

The yelling- I'm sitting at the radiology desk (reading blogs, because that is what Alberta taxpayers like for me to do) and all of a sudden I hear this woman screaming bloody murder at someone. She was going on about a baby being born and how the people with her would never get to see it. And she was "fucking this, fucking that." Now, I swear, way too much, but never like that. Not screaming in public. I am sure that baby is going to have a fantastic life.

The making out- I went to go and get a guy to go over to CT. When I opened his curtain he and his girlfriend were on the stretcher making out. Honestly! What goes through people's heads? What makes a 40 year old man (and she must have been about 50!) think it is appropriate to make out in the freaking hospital? He looked like he had been in one hell of a fight, and how he even found kissing and all pleasurable is beyond me.

The Drunk This man was probably in his mid to late 40s. He came out of the bathroom and stood there, completely blocking my entrance. There was a feamle security guard with him. He was talking about his urine sample. Loudly. His jeans were buttoned up, but the zip was down and they were wide open. Like see it all open. And the backof his pants were soaked, which leads me to believe he had wet himself. Or he could have been sitting in the rain I suppose. The security guard says "Do up your pants." And he says "Why? You've got that hungry look in your eyes." Just the way he said it and her rolling her eyes in complete and total disgust had me laughing. The drunks at work quite amuse me, last week an old man sang some song that made me think of Baptist churches in the south. It was fantastic, but even I was a little tired of it by the time I had walked past him a dozen times, so I am sure his EMTs were totally sick of it. The one kept saying "Don't you know any other songs?" And he'd say yes, and then start that same song again.

However, were it ever my dad who was the drunk in the ER I would be very upset. Like murder him upset. Thank God I wasn't working there when that was what he was like.

The tears- It was a miscarriage and that's probably all I should say about it. It happens all the time, I know that, but there was something about this couple and her crying that will make them very hard to forget.

The crazy chicks The other day when I worked I brought a young girl over from the ER. She tells me it is her daughter's second birthday today and she wants to get home as she has left her with the neghbours. I ask what brings her in because I did notice that she had an ultrasound to check for internal bleeding. I assumed she had been in a car accident. No. The father of her daughter has been kicking her "down there" and then a few days ago she "got into a fight and this morning was in huge pain." Seriously, some people are just not ready to be parents. What was she doing out getting into fights? Anyway, she waits ages for her test. As she is lying there, a girl is brought out of the xray room and they start talking. I'm in and out, so not listening to their conversation and as I am getting ready to take the second girl back upstairs they exchange phone numbers. They are literally yelling their numbers back and forth to each other, since apparently yelling makes you remember things better. The girl tells me that her baby's father is the best friend of the other girl's baby's father, and they are both fighting with the dads. Then she asks me what her name is. I say her first name and she say "Oh, now I remember where I knew her from- I kicked the shit out of her once." Really, I say, thinking once again that some people REALLY should not be parents. The first girl (N) had tried to break into L's house so L beat up N and L's boyfriend beat up the guy she was with. Classy. I wonder if she will ever call her? And then this girl, L, asked me to send back up the porter who had picked her up because he was cute. And he is cute. (You can even see him on you tube- he's a med student and they did some song based on that Justin Timberlake song Sexy Back -or whatever it's called- it was quite good really, has even made it onto the news) Anyway I digress. He is cute, but she was...not so much. I did tell him though. I don't believe he took her up on the offer.