# Interesting dialogue with a patient today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120 "2008-05-21T16:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/41 "2008-05-22T17:36:40Z")
Smoking vegetarians is not good for your health. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/42 "2008-05-22T17:41:01Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Smoking vegetarians is not good for your health. [/QUOTE] Even if they’re organic? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/43 "2008-05-22T18:09:15Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I can do it, but it isn’t my elbow that hits, it’s the meaty part of my forearm. [/QUOTE] Me, too. I wonder if the length of one’s arms makes a difference, or what. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/44 "2008-05-22T19:30:31Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] I just tried it. I physically cannot hit myself in the forehead with my elbow. So, the guy deserves a golf clap just for accomplishing this feat. [/QUOTE] I have to confess, I just tried it too. (And I’m reading this because I’m sitting in for the receptionist while she’s at lunch.) I can’t do it, but it made my co-workers glance at me with some concern. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/45 "2008-05-22T20:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I can do it, but it isn’t my elbow that hits, it’s the meaty part of my forearm. [/QUOTE] I can do it easily. You all should seek medical attention and ask them why it hurts to try it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/46 "2008-05-22T20:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] I can do it easily. You all should seek medical attention and ask them why it hurts to try it. [/QUOTE] A good idea, but I’d want **QtM** treating me given his experience with this ailment - and I’m not sure I want to commit the requisite felony (-ies) required to get me sent to choky. Which is to say, I totally want to commit felonies, but I don’t think I’d be able to explain “prison gay” to my mother. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/47 "2008-05-23T00:19:34Z")
I did say “Then don’t do that!” Then I paused. " I think that is SUPPOSED to hurt" ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/48 "2008-05-23T00:39:15Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I have to confess, I just tried it too. [/QUOTE] I have to confess, the only reason I _haven’t_ tried that is that I have an IV hep lock in the bend of my right arm, and I’m afraid if I try that, I’ll infiltrate the IV hep lock before I can finish my course of IV antibiotics on Saturday. On Saturday evening, though, I’m _totally_ going to try that! ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/49 "2008-05-23T01:14:16Z")
Damn! I should have told him it wouldn’t hurt if he had his wedding ring up his nose! Why do I think of these things 4 years to late?!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/50 "2008-05-27T02:34:01Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] In Wisconsin, no prisons allow any tobacco products on the grounds, for either inmates or staff. But we’re an intake facility, so I’m constantly seeing guys who may have been smoking up to a day or two before I might see them. So it’s still a pertinent question. [/QUOTE] So what do they use for bartering? ---
**Author:** ![cashoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@cashoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cashoe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/51 "2008-05-27T21:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Smoking vegetarians is not good for your health. [/QUOTE] But they are SO much tastier than the plain, unsmoked ones. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120/52 "2008-05-27T21:24:36Z")
[QUOTE=Ignatz] So what do they use for bartering? [/QUOTE] Ohhh I could guess! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-dialogue-with-a-patient-today/450120.md?page=2)