My Trip to the Emergency Room

The other day I needed to go to the emergency room.

Not wanting to sit there for 4 hours, I put on my old
Army fatigues and stuck a patch onto the front of my
shirt that I had downloaded off the Internet.

When I went into the E.R., I noticed that 3/4 of the
people got up and left. I guess they decided that they
weren't that sick after all. Cut at least 3 hours off my
waiting time.

Here's the patch. Feel free to use it the next time
you're in need of quicker emergency service.


It also works at DMV; it saved me 5 hours.

And the Laundromat... three minutes after entering,
I had my choice of any machine, most still running.

Don't try it at McDonald's; the whole crew got up
and left and l never got my order

LOL - especially would work in Southern California!

So True!!!!

i love it LOL LOL

That is cute!

would probably clear the decks around here, too.
yikes! :-D

Omg, Miss Butterfly you are so bad.

Way cute!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks for my daily laugh.

Chuckle!

unless you got indian ancestors its not that funny anymore, isnt it?

correct.

everybody comes from somewhere else. including the first american indians.
however, we all got here the right way.

Sorry, I quess I'm just a little put off by this sort of humor. Doesn't feel like a joke to me. I'll move on.

I lol love lol it lol ............

lol i face that part of illeagles ever day arround here can't get in to the county clinic
word changed i hope befor tomany people saw it

sorry about the word wrote it before i thought sorry

Maybe we all should wear this all the time and remind illegals that it is a crime to enter our country without a visa.
:thumbup: Karen

being PC is sooooooo boring and my pet peeve.

It would certainly be true here in Tucson.

I just sent it off to all my relatives and friends. Living this close to the border it might help our wait time.

Hi Karen

I figured out what PC means but dont have the slidest idea what "pet peeve" means. I am a foreigner and english is not my mothertongue.
Sorry for being boring but I dont consider myself as PC. I think it is in the human nature to make jokes about everything that scares or is hard to deal with. A couple of days ago there was a joke about dementia and I loved it. My mother died two years ago after suffering from Alzheimer for several years.

I just dont see the point what is so unbearable or scary about foreign human beings that you have to make jokes like that.

OMG -- that's SO funny! My SIL lives in southern Cal. She had to go to the ER thinking she was having a heart attack. She was told to go sit down it'd be a few hours (?????? gasp) She noticed there were a lot of people that, well, she THOUGHT may not have insurance nor be here legally. She went to the corner, slumped, and passed out. ALL FAKE! She got rushed in..........got treated ..........no heart attack.........but they kept her there for 3 days for psychiatric evaluation. My DH says they didn't keep her long enough!!!!! (this is a TRUE story!)

it is not the legal forener that are scarry it is the illeagles listen to the news about all the robbery and killing nine time out of ten it turns out being an illeagle they are taking our jobs this is why our system is crashing they overload the emergency romm and say they can't pay so they get free health they abouse our social systems food stamps health care if you are born in the us you don't have a chance if you need help all the money is gone to forenneers that don't pay taxes then they complain when they caqn't file taxes there boss hasn't paid them he pocketed the money so you tell me what is scarry about foreiners
our county was build on shristanity now we can't even say a paryer at a sports game last christmas i told a freind i was going to church on christmas eve to worship god i got a three day suspension for saying the word god at work what is wrong with forieners you tell me

ROFLOL-Too funny. You have the best jokes.

LOL funny.

You'd probably vacate 60% of the state of Arizona with that one! Love it. When I saw it was you posting, I knew it had to good!

If you had to sit with your 90 year old mother in an ER in Tucson for 5 hours while people with less-than-emergency problems were taken ahead of you, you'd understand why we laugh at this joke. We're laughing because it would probably work, and it's BETTER THAN CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mom was in pain, but in the ER in southern Arizona you 'take a number and wait' unless you're bleeding, have a bone sticking out or obviously having a heart attack - even if you're brought in an ambulance.

This happened with my Mom's pain from shingles over and over until she finally broke out in the shingles rash and could be diagnosed.

Frankly, I'm in favor of straightening out our immigration problem and our health insurance problems so NO ONE has to go to ERs for routine medical care. Unfortunately, that's what happens - and not just in the states that border Mexico.

That is just to cute

i agree - there are illegals here not only from mexico but from all of our borders. along both coastlines there are port cities and along the northern border people cross over from canada. and i don't mean canadiens. it makes me sick to think of the money wasted trying to track down illegals working here and paying taxes who we'll never find. if people have jobs, pay taxes, SPEAK ENGLISH, don't have police records and have managed to hide here for 5 years, let them take the damn test. and then let them pay for their own medical like i do. their children are americans anyway, and will come back as soon as they're grown, so who're we kidding? we have "upstanding citizens' who can't read, are in and out of prison, won't work, and are a complete drain on my money. they get drunk and drive and their kids learn the same behaviour. keep out any more illegals and go after the ones that try to beat the system. but don't push out the ones that help keep the economy going. a lot of those people are doing jobs that no one else wants to do, and if they all vanished you'd see an awful lot of businesses go straight down the tubes, taking a lot of jobs with them.

whew! too liberal for some. not liberal enough for others. can't be all things to all people. rant over!

This proves my point about this not being a joke or funny, and shouldn't disguised that way. I don't mean any offense, but felt like I had to say something because the "joke" bothered me. I hope we can bypass an us or them argument, because that is certainly not my intention. Sorry for any negative vibes I may have generated.

what creates the problem is not funny at all and we won't get into that here.
undocumented workers, however, are not supposed to be here and i think we can all agree on that.

I'm all for not getting into that here. Happy sewing, quilter friend ;-)

This is so true, I cant get help, I am disabled and cant work, but I cant even get welfare. I have worked all my life and now I cant. I cant get more than half of my medacation. we have lost are home we have lost everything because we cant get help. I am praying that I can get SSS. this is why it is funny, not because you are from a diffarent country, but because of the people who come to ours ilegale and take all they can get, and then people like me who was borned here cant get any help. I call that a very sad day when are country cant help there own. Penny

[quote=penny doty
This is so true, I cant get help, I am disabled and cant work, but I cant even get welfare. I have worked all my life and now I cant. I cant get more than half of my medacation. we have lost are home we have lost everything because we cant get help. I am praying that I can get SSS. this is why it is funny, not because you are from a diffarent country, but because of the people who come to ours ilegale and take all they can get, and then people like me who was borned here cant get any help. I call that a very sad day when are country cant help there own. Penny[/quote]

Penny - have you applied for Medicaid or contacted you Cong. Representative? Also, now that the Health Care Bill has passed, I hope you'll be able to get some help.

i know exatly what you are going through luckly my house is paid off so i don't have a mortage i have been fighting ss since 2007 i have apealed twice and am on my third i finnaly have a hearing comming up in a month good luck i don't know how far you are in your calim bt is can take up to 10 yrs as i understand hve you attorney put you on the hardship list that does help to speed thing up i hope you have a good attorney if not i would contact one or ss will just push your case back the ss attorneys work on stigincy which means they don't get opaid unless you win they can only take 25 percent up 3,000 so there will bw some left ss now only pays back 2 yrs unless you are like my applied before sept 2008 than they will pay back to the date you filed good luck and god bless i will pray [quote=JoanneS]

[quote=minnow895]i know exatly what you are going through luckly my house is paid off so i don't have a mortage i have been fighting ss since 2007 i have apealed twice and am on my third i finnaly have a hearing comming up in a month good luck i don't know how far you are in your calim bt is can take up to 10 yrs as i understand hve you attorney put you on the hardship list that does help to speed thing up i hope you have a good attorney if not i would contact one or ss will just push your case back the ss attorneys work on stigincy which means they don't get opaid unless you win they can only take 25 percent up 3,000 so there will bw some left ss now only pays back 2 yrs unless you are like my applied before sept 2008 than they will pay back to the date you filed good luck and god bless i will pray I just had a phone confrence with SSS two weeks ago, and have not heard back from them, and just this morning they took are $50.00 a month food stamps away. when will the blows end. I dont think I can handle much more. In another month they will take the pain med away because they want a MRI and want to send me to a pain clinic. but I have no money to do any of that. If they do take my pain meds away, I could not go on, it would be to much. Penny

You are so funny. Would this work on the golf course! I am looking forward to golfing again which means that I will not be quilting as much....Barbara

all of that have applied for sssmhave applied for medica the onkly way to get that assistance is either be a sin gle pregnaut woman married with childern father not working or single parrent or a illeage the rest of us born in the us are throwen to the trash oh wem have this great program in iowa call iowa cares i relly like to think of it as iowa dosent care they just want you tom spend what you have left for this program you get free heath care the problem being i dont live in iowa city dont have the gas to drive in this case the van will come and get me but i have to have hotel reservations in iowa city staying with a friend or relativ wont do you have to stay in the hotel and pay for meals the last time to iowa city it cst about 200 dollars buy the time i paid the hotel and meals and cag fair to the clinic cheaper to go to the doc here in town we also have a county clinic closer buy you can get madical on a program according to your income you can also get free medicn trouble ther is a two year wait to get5 in to see a doctor untill your name comes up on the waiting list for emergsncys you can go to the clinic and put your name in and wait for some one to miss and apointment that could take several days of wating to get in the clinic is filled with non speaking people that are illeagle so pleas tell me how if i applie for medicad i would have to fake a pregnance no0t easy to do after my first phone conferance it took 9 months to here i wasn't diabled according to them now on third appeal where you go befor the appeals boardni got a better chance with an attorney also 7 doctors supporting this i was a truck driver made a lot of money now i get food stamps i had a ijurty on the job now i have siezures sever pain limited motion the siezures are untreated no nuoligest will see me with out insurance i shure do hop this vote helps us and i hope all the funds they are talking aboutm dosent go to the illeagles
sorry to rant on like this but i agrree with penny it get realyy frustrating when doctors wont let you work and your stuck out in the cold in this great nation that i paid hundreds of dollars in taxes everyear to suppport our great nation god bless penny keep up the hope trust in god he doesw answer prayers he has mine i still have my home also call you local church the do have funds to help people like us i know my catholic church is helping me i just hope i can pay back the church somday

I don't understand what anyone is worked up about. Take the joke at face value. No one should feel insulted unless they're here illegally. Sometimes, a joke is just a joke.......