The Flask Story

Yesterday a friend of mine got engaged. (It was so moving and beautiful that I'd better post about the engagement party later)

Anyway, she is my age, but her brother is a couple of years older and he is a nurse. It so happens that he practices in the same hospital as I will next year and he knows all of my Prof/ doctors.

So -to the point- before her fiance came over, we were sitting in the kitchen all dressed up and got to talking about hospital-life (his) and about the doctors that we both liked and/or disliked.

So this is the water story, as told by the "bride-to-be" 's brother:

"In every ward there's a room where nurses and doctors take a break, smoke and drink coffee. In the Cardio ward there's a small fridge and usually there are some bottles of drinkable water stored in it, which you can use to make coffee until they are empty and you have to buy your own.

Well this teacher (let's call him Mr X) had his own flask of water, stored in the fridge, so that he would be able to have coffee whenever he needed. Let it be said that he works very hard and very very long hours. The nurses knew that, but since the flask was right there, X was not and drinkable water was nowhere nearby, they used his flask instead of buying there own.

So one morning I was sitting there smoking and drinking my coffee when X came in totally pissed and shared with me what had hapened to his car that very morning. In this state of anger he started to make coffee, but unfortunately found his flask totally empty.

He swore and shouted and dared to find out whoever it was that was taking advantage of his flask. In his fury, he grabs a red marker and writes with big red letters on the flask:

ATTENTION - DANGER: THE FLASK CONTAINS POISONED WATER

I laughed and we both left the room afterwards.

The nurses saw what was written on the flask, but of course no one took it for granted and everyone kept on "stealing" his water.

One of the mornings after, I was once again drinking coffee, when X walked in to make his own. He got hold of his flask and emptied it in the sink.

Surprised, I asked: Why are you emptying it?

-There's Lassix in it.

-Some days it's pure water and others it's not. I don't want anyone to know when exactly it's okay to drink.

-Let everyone stay in the bathroom for a while, and then we'll see who shall use my flask again."

Hee hee hee :-D