# Need help desparately **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-desparately/6511 "2000-01-19T20:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-desparately/6511/41 "2000-01-21T20:17:00Z")
Peyote - I have no sage advice to add, (other than the excersize one - I’ve heard that elsewhere) but I want to know - how are you doing? When does this test occur? How’s it going, man? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-desparately/6511/42 "2000-01-25T17:32:00Z")
I PASSES!!! I PASSED!!! I PASSED!!! And I got the job. With the exception of AvenueB-dude, thanks very much to all of you for your suggestions and anecdotes – I really appreciate them. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” As for AvenueB-dude, why don’t you take your shrill, heavy-handed moralizing and Victorian attitudes and shove them up your fascist ass? Post your address, putz, and I’ll send you trainfare so you can visit the closest body of water and drown yourself. * * * The Coyote gnaws … but he does not swallow. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-desparately/6511/43 "2000-01-25T17:47:00Z")
When they ask you if you’ve been taking any OTC medication, tell them you have been taking ibuprofen for the last few days - ibuprofen has been found to cause false positives, and you can use this to buy you some more time until your retest [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-desparately/6511.md?page=2)