Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I just got back from seeing "Pan's Labyrinth". It was quite good (with some fairly gruesome minor surgery scenes) but I am writing about about the people who sat in front of us. The group was, by our guess, a pair of middle age parents, a daughter and her boyfriend. I initially thought that the reek of booze was spillage on my husband's jacket from his last trip to the bar. But it was soon apparent that they were accompanying their movie with a beverage or two. The boyfriend left, sometime around the boogey man scene, and the rest of the group managed to drink themselves into an incoherent, but loud, mess by the end of the movie. While I enjoy a drink now and again, I don't really understand going to a subtitled historical fantasy/war movie to get hammered. They could barely make their way out of the theatre. It seems like an odd thing to do while at a movie with mom. I spent Monday morning shadowing in the inpatient psych ward at the hospital. Maybe it says more about me, but some of the psychotics actually make more sense to me than the 'normal' people I see all the time. I can understand that, if you honestly believe it is your job to receive signals for the armed forces or spirits are coming through the walls to get you, you could get paranoid or violent. I don't understand people who risk their life acting like an idiot in traffic just to wait two cars ahead at the light. Or spending $50 to sit in a movie, drink out of a flask and talk about your dog.

4 comments:

CharleyBrowne said...

that is a funny and irritating story all at the same time. i would have punch them in the face and left them bleeding.

anyway, the real question is: how are you getting all these shawdowing gigs?! i am jealous. (thanks for your commment!)

med neophyte said...

I am not sure how I managed so much shadowing this month. After multitudes of harassing emails I could only get 8 hours all of last semester. I did more than that last week! My sparkling personality must be finally shining through :)

The Angry Medic said...

You've got it right, crazy people make a lot more sense than some very sane but very idiotic people on the streets. (Myself excluded, of course, as my sanity is also going down the drain thanks to med school).

Keep the tales coming! I'm adding you to my blogroll. I hope you don't mind the heading I gave you :)

med neophyte said...

Thanks for the roll mention Angry! I write as often as I can; the venting helps with whatever is left of my sanity.