What's you favorite redneck patient story??

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What's you favorite redneck patient story??

Specializes in Hospice.

My story? Hmmmm. well Late one night this elderly gentlemen requested a read. I really wasn't sure, I mean, I grew up in the south but, really, i was LOST. I ask him if he wanted a book, "no mame' I want a read", I ask if he wanted me to read to him?' again he said no.............he wanted a REED to drink his coke with. Oh yeah, a straw......ugh......a new one on me

and as for the Honky Tonk.......you've NEVER been to a red-neck bar until you've been to the "No Name Bar" in Willacoochee, GA. The band "River" actually made a song up about it. One of the band members used to be our pharmacists at the hospital where I work, so when they played over at the NO NAME, a bunch of us went. And it was as red-necked as you can get. Concrete floor w/ a drain in the center, broken beer bottles, toothless men (and women), fights, and a hellva good time.:eek:

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I am sorry but I also just found this thread. I have a question. I happen to be from the south, i could understand the joke about the pigs, some of those redneck jokes could fit my family and they dont happen to offend me. I am however black. I think it is good to laugh about yourself and I think I laugh hardest when it resembles our life and honestly this would probably resemble some part of my family. I say lighten up I dont get offended unless the joke was clearly intended to hurt and I dont think it was. Humor is a part of life and if you don't have it I don't think you're really living maybe just existing. IMHO

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dont even sweat that. I didnt see anything racist about what you said. some people dont have a sense of humor and thats not your fault. That wa s FUNNY !!!!!!!:rotfl:

WOW. I guess there's a first time for everything.....until today, I had never, in almost 45 years on this planet, been accused of being a racist of any kind.

I'm floored. I have never knowingly set out to offend anyone in my life, not even political conservatives (with whom I have deep philosophical differences, but certainly not hatred). All I did here was reply to a question asked by the OP, and if I'm no Jeff Foxworthy, I wasn't trying to be......I'm a nurse, not a comedian who makes a career of ethnic 'jokes'. And what I actually did was report speech patterns and other aspects of the individuals surrounding my patient......not make fun of them, although the whole episode *was* rather humorous. Shame on me for finding humor in a situation such as this, and for offending someone who wasn't even there, yet who has made it crystal clear that I am a bad person, a racist even, because I shared this story.

Believe me, I've learned my lesson. I will never again post ANYTHING that may lead to charges of racism, or at the very least insensitivity toward those whose ethnicity/skin color/social status/politics/geography/speech patterns/accent/choice of vehicle decorations/music preferences/fill in the blank may be different from my own. Which I guess means I shouldn't post on this BB anymore, for fear of offending SOMEBODY with my ill-considered, prejudiced views.

My apologies to psychomachia for my existence.

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Actually im african american and it didnt takle me long to decipher that one.

them are pigs

them are not pigs

hell, i'll be, them are pigs?

ding ding ding!! i win!

Hey mj!!

Being a WV hillbilly myself I think I have the expertise to judge your story as being biased or racial. I am very proud to be a hillbilly!!!! Call myself a redneck on those days when my big mouth gets me in more trouble than I can get out of......

Purple was right when she said it wouldn't have been funny if it was a spick/mexican joke. People use us rednecks and hillbillies in jokes 'cause we are tough and can handle a little ribbing now and then.

I thought your story was cute and I would have told it the same way if I had the experience!

EXPERT SAYS: YOU IS OKAY!!!!

If you can decipher this then you are a redneck:

MR PIGS

MR NOT PIGS

LIB MR PIGS

let me know if you get it or not!!

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Stevierae asked earlier what Cottapinello is, and it wasn't answered. I am curious too. Just what is Cottapinello? :confused: :confused: :confused:

Thanks!

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Hi,

There's a selection of UK redneck stories in the humour section of http://www.emergency-nurse.org - they're not that different in Norfolk (UK)!!

Damien van C.

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

Hey , Im a hillbilly myself and loved this post.... I am from the country can drive anything put in front of me ,live in a trailer and take my baths outside.. I have every intention of moving to the hills of Arkansas were for me things are normal... You just a keep on postin..... Mabey later Ill post on the one and only time I moved to the city, did you know you can't carry a shotgun in the city. Or about the time I tacked a big rot thinkning he was gonna hurt one of my babies.....

Awwwwwww.....you guys are terrific!!

Don't worry, I won't quit posting.......I've got too big a mouth and too damned many opinions to ever shut up entirely. I was just so shocked by purple's post that I didn't even know HOW to react, and yes, I admit it: I was hurt. Ordinarily I'm pretty thick-skinned (you have to be if you're going to stick your neck out in the public arena the way I do), but this cut me to the quick......I probably shouldn't admit that, I don't want to give this poster the satisfaction, but it's true.

The irony is, I'm barely one generation out of the backwoods myself, and I KNOW I'm no sophisticate. Most of my family came from solid 'redneck' stock, and we laugh harder at Jeff Foxworthy's stuff than a lot of people because we can relate to so much of it!!

Thanks again, my friends......my faith in humanity has been restored!:kiss

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I was working in a clinic when a patient came in with lacerations in need of suturing. His arm was covered with white threads- On closer observation, however, I noticed that it looked like spider webbing. Sure enough- to stop the bleeding and stop "germs from gettin in it" his family "went yonder" in search of spider webs to wrap his arm with. Yes- there were little bugs in the mess. I almost wet my pants trying to keep the laughter in.

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Yes, by the way, I just might be a redneck

As the wise man, Jeff Foxworthy, would put it-

"Being a Redneck is a state of mind. To define it would be, to having the absence of sophistication."

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

I thought it was pretty funny too, and let me tell you I think Jeff Foxworthy got all his material from spying on my family! LOL I was not in the least offended and I am a BIG Ol' redneck who married an even BIGGER one! LOL If you can't laugh at yourself you are missing out! :rolleyes:

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i was raised in Arkansas, where you will find the reddest necks in the country, others are just pink around the edges...anyway these people were the salt of the earth..they would share their last biscuit with you...men who could not read or write picked cotton to send their children to college...i still remember the crisp morning running to the heated side of a dog-trot house to warm up with a fine breakfast...full of cholestral but who had heard of such a thing...God bless the red-necks..you will not see their like again

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I was living in Florida- it was Halloween & we were asked to dress up at the clinic. I wore cut off overalls, braided my hair, blackened a tooth, penicilled freckles, wore a straw hat- the whole nine yards.

A middle aged man came in with chest pain. Our policy was to do an EKG after taking VS, before the MD saw the patient. After his procedure he replied, "You know I can't help staring at you. You look exactly like my niece in Georgia." I smiled of course.

Ironically- I now live in redneck central, and many people look like I did.

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