It seems that we have some interesting conversations at work…I remember once when I first started working at the clinic we had a heated discussion as to whether a Jedi was a superhero or not. As time has passed it seems like we develop a different mentality or maybe it's just that we have a different kind of employee. For example, the other day I came back from lunch and caught the tail end (no pun intended) of the following conversation:

Tough Guy Employee: "You want to know how you can tell if you're eating too much fat?"

Young Girl Employee: "How?"

Tough Guy Employee: "You really want to know how you can tell if there is too much fat in your diet?" he pointed at his sides, "besides it showing up here."

I was intrigued so I had to ask, "How can you tell if you're eating too much fat?"

Tough Guy Employee: "If your poo-poo floats when you have a bowel movement then you have too much fat in your diet." For a tough guy it seems funny to me that he would use the word "poo poo" He must be one of those tough guys with a soft nuggety center that shows his heart of gold before the movie ends.

Me: "Duuuude, that's nasty. How can you check if you do the courtesy flush?" I have to admit that I didn't know what a courtesy flush was until recently. For those that don't know it's when you flush your poo poo <-(tough guy term) as it exits you and hits the water so that you can keep the smell to a minimum.

Young Girl Employee: "I don't do the courtesy flush, I always look. Don't you ever look? Aren't you curious?"

Me: "No. That's nasty. You don't do the courtesy flush?"

Young Girl Employee: "No. I don't"

Me: "You must really stink up the place."

Young Girl Employee: “I don’t want that dookie water splashing back up on me.”

Tough Guy Employee: "TMI – Too Much Information"

And that’s just another conversation in a day of my life.