You should know better

[adventure_rn]

Ok, AN, it's guilty pleasure time. What do you do that you know as a nurse you shouldn't? Chain smoke? Binge drink on the weekends? Lecture a patient on a healthy lifestyle then go home and slam down a whole mac-n-cheese pizza? Ride your kick-a** donorcycle to work? Do back flips on your trampoline while juggling swords?

Out with it!

[Farawyn]

It's really just black pepper I don't like. I'm ok with the other kinds in moderation. I'm not a huge fan of spicy things though. Except tabasco sauce. I could drink the stuff (ok, not really, but I do like it on scrambled eggs and hash browns!)

There's really not much I won't eat, or at least try. I hate overly sweet stuff

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I worked with a woman from Jamaica. This was how she prepared her can of tuna for her lunch: Dump it out on a plate, sprinkle ground black pepper on it until none of the tuna shows. Then sprinkle white pepper on it until you can no longer see the black pepper. You follow that with some kind of red pepper she'd brought up from Jamaica, and cover the white pepper completely.

I said, "Hazel, how can you even taste​ the tuna?" She told me it didn't even start to get good until the red pepper coated it. I am fairly easy about new foods, and mostly am willing to try most things for at least one bite, but this......no, peppered tuna probably wouldn't be my cup of tea, so I never did try it. I imagined my tongue with the taste buds burned right out of it!

[Nurse Malone]

LOL! I like this post & responses!!!

Well I don't drink or smoke, though I have my days when I find myself gorging on sweets - especially chocolates! I forget to take my Lasix (VIS) & I'm not too quick to sit down & get off my legs when they're hurting or cramping.... hopeless supergirl syndrome!

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

I ate half a bag of Bugles last night.

[Farawyn]

I ate half a bag of Bugles last night.

OMG BUGLES!!!

They still make those?

[No Stars In My Eyes]

When Bugles first came out, they were in a box; I ate a whole box in one evening, and was later revisited by the same, retracing their esophageal journey. Haven't eaten them since.

[noelly10]

When Bugles first came out, they were in a box; I ate a whole box in one evening, and was later revisited by the same, retracing their esophageal journey. Haven't eaten them since.

I had a similar experience with spaghettios

[Farawyn]

When Bugles first came out, they were in a box; I ate a whole box in one evening, and was later revisited by the same, retracing their esophageal journey. Haven't eaten them since.

I don't like corn chips. They smell like dogs' paws.

[Farawyn]

I should know bettern to have a wheat beer right now, but the Espys are on soon! And it's Wednesday!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I should know bettern to have a wheat beer right now, but the Espys are on soon! And it's Wednesday!

Oooh1 Thanks for mentioning that, I would have missed it entirely!

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

I look at the gym everyday but I don't go in. Oh wait I went last month for a massage but I walked by the exercise equipment real fast though. Hey that counts as exercise! Speed walking.

I was a smoker but quit that about 15 years ago.

I did go to the dentist for the first time in about 13 years last month too. Last month was a new beginning for me. Oh hey I went to the OB last month too! The last time I went was 3 years ago.

Same here with the gym... I haven't been on a regular basis in so long. What happens when you went to the dentist after 13 years?

I haven't been in... 8 years? I'm so scared. I had cavities that I needed to address back then and I couldn't afford to pay. I'm so scared I have some horrible problem going on I don't know about. I'm going to force myself to go this year.

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

I think my worst habit is caffeine. I love sugar free red bull drinks. I worked an 18 hour shift them thee day. During the course of said shift, I drank three. Each one had about.. 150 mg caffeine? Yikes!