Crusty Old Bat Society

quiltynurse56, LPN, LVN · Oct 23, 2015

I am "old" age wise, but young nurse wise. I even had someone in one of my nursing classes say I shouldn't be there because I was too old. Does that count. I mean, I can get rather crusty with misbehaving CNAs

Farawyn · Oct 23, 2015

One of my last preceptors was 74, and can make snow cones out of everyone here.

I was quaking in my Danskos. She was amazeballs.

THAT, my esteemed colleagues, is a COB.

AcuteHD · Oct 23, 2015

I believe one of the requirements is to be accused, at least once, of NETY in a post...

Never been accused of being NETY, but what about sinister? Is that close enough?

allnurses Guide · Oct 23, 2015

Takes time to develop a crust, just like barnacles and lichen. Age comes on its own. Crust develops with age in nursing. Accusations are the spice going into the crust (although my grandmother only recommended a pinch of baking soda while mixing the crust dough). Since your crust is so thick, the accusations can only add to you, rather than diminish.

To begin your crust, you must snark the boojum, thus eliciting NETY*NETY*NETY and jealousy accusations..... or if no snark a healthy dose of realism in your responses.

Farawyn · Oct 23, 2015

Takes time to develop a crust, just like barnacles and lichen. Age comes on its own. Crust develops with age in nursing. Accusations are the spice going into the crust (although my grandmother only recommended a pinch of baking soda while mixing the crust dough). Since your crust is so thick, the accusations can only add to you, rather than diminish.
To begin your crust, you must snark the boojum, thus eliciting NETY*NETY*NETY and jealousy accusations..... or if no snark a healthy dose of realism in your responses.

Snark the boojum. *swoon*

Farawyn · Oct 23, 2015

Never been accused of being NETY, but what about sinister? Is that close enough?

Nope.

AcuteHD · Oct 23, 2015

Nope.

FINE!! I didn't want to be in your little club anyway. Why are y'all soooo mean?!? Besides I'm far too young and pretty to be an old bat!

Hoosier_RN, MSN · Oct 23, 2015

FINE!! I didn't want to be in your little club anyway. Why are y'all soooo mean?!? Besides I'm far too young and pretty to be an old bat!

You forgot the part about them being a hateful, old, biter nurse

Farawyn · Oct 23, 2015

FINE!! I didn't want to be in your little club anyway. Why are y'all soooo mean?!? Besides I'm far too young and pretty to be an old bat!

You ain't that young, SweetCheeks.

AcuteHD · Oct 23, 2015

You ain't that young, SweetCheeks.

Ha! So you think I'm pretty! Awww.

Davey Do · Dec 3, 2015

I looked up the Urban Dictionary definition of "old bat" and it's pretty much gender specific: "Any annoying post-menopausal woman, but specifically one who applies a considerable amount of make-up and scares children with her appearance."

But I want to be a COB! I am a COB! I am a Crusty old Bass-turd! I've eaten my fair share amount of young Nurses! Well, those who were deserving of being eaten. But that's another story...

ANYWHO, while posting on an LPN to RN thread, I happened to mention that a Nurse I worked with in the late '80's had taken the 11 essay question RN State Board test in 1949.

WOW. 1949. Over 65 years ago...

Then I started remembering other age-mature Nurse Stories. Like the Supervising Nurse of the OB-GYN unit when I was an LPN student in 1983: She told me of how she felt as a Student Nurse at the time Pearl Harbor was bombed! Then the first Nursing Job I had in a Mom & Pop Nursing Home. One of my patients became a Nurse in 1940! I remember talking with her about the then-new miracle drug, Penicillin!

Thanks. That was good for me!

Any of you COBs got memories you'd like to share?

Davey Do · Dec 3, 2015

Perhaps- a COB logo?