One of my cousins is a nurse in a large clinic. She just sent me an email that included the following. She swears that this story is absolutely true….

In our busy OB-GYN office, it seems we have multiple sources of misinformation to deal with on a daily basis: television, the Internet, popular magazines, and others – not the least of which are well-meaning, but incredibly stupid, family members.

The best of many examples over the past few months:

Late on Friday afternoon, the husband of one of our OB patients, who was nearing forty weeks, appeared at our check-in window and asked to speak to one of our nurses to clarify some advice they had been given by the patient’s mother. She had told them that they could effectively induce labor at home by giving her castor oil. He had bought some at the store, and wanted to be sure he had the right brand, and the correct dose. At this point, he produced a Wal-Mart bag and pulled out a quart of CASTROL.

”How much of this should I give her tonight?” he asked.

You can’t make stuff like this up. Stupid is as stupid almost did. Sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Castrol, you are just too stupid to have kids. Try again next year. Someday, I plan on running for office. My platform will consist of one plank: the Feds will put birth control in the water supply, and citizens must pass a test to get the antidote….

It may not be much, but it’s clear that our gene pool is in dire need of some chlorine.

Jesus,

Many stay in the shallow end of the gene pool.

The trouble is, with so much drug abuse in our culture, it is getting very crowded there. It is too bad that these folk reproduce at a higher rate than the normally neurologically endowed.

Kind of makes one less of a Darwinian with faith in natural order, doesn't it?

Of course, it works out fine from a standpoint of thermodynamics...

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