TheBanyanTree: Jerking the chain...

[Tobie Shapiro]

>"You ought to be a doctor," I said.
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>"Hm.  Maybe."
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>"Or a nurse."
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>"Eeyew!  I'd have to wear a pink dress!"
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>???
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April 4, 2000003


Dear LL, and aLL,

	What?  He has a problem with a pink dress?  He should not 
worry.  They start you out slow in first year nursing school with a 
kind of dark, maroony pair of ankle length culottes.  The second 
year, they give the image a gentle nudge.  The uniform is  more 
mauve, and the hemline goes up to mid calf.  Third year it's 
lavender skorts (of sorts) (the prom is just NOT TO BE MISSED!).  It 
isn't until the fourth year that all the nursing students wear that 
obligatory pink florescent dress so typical of all the famous nurses 
of today.  And for the men, of course, there is no darting in the 
torso for the bustline (exceptions for "portly" sizes).

	Fortunately, and you can tell your young healer this, there 
is no proscription against beards, he will not have to shave his 
legs, and it is seldom that anyone gets an unauthorized  glimmer of 
the flamingo thong underwear (with or without boa fur).  And in this 
modern day, they don't even have to wear the little hats with the 
twimpies on them.  The work is glamourous, the pay is astounding, the 
respect is unparalleled, and male nurses don't have to clean up any 
vomit.

	That's better than a lousy CEO job, now, isn't it!!  Plus: 
no guilt, no indictments, and you meet such nice people, many of them 
lying down, that must listen to you.

	I say:  go for it.

	If he doesn't like the idea, either he can be a doctor, or I 
guess he could get a part time in some day care center affixing 
band-aids and fetching wheel chairs.

	Love,

	Tobie
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Tobie Helene Shapiro
Berkeley, California   USA

tobie at shpilchas.net