You know you work nights when.......

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The conversation with coworkers each night starts with "I got x amount of sleep today..."

Your kids are done with their swimming lessons and all of the other moms meet their kids at the gate. Your kids come to the car and wake you up, and of course you're drooling on yourself.

The people at the scool have seen you in your pajamas and messed up hair because you forgot to set the alarm.

You make a pot of coffee, pour in the water and set the pot on the counter. It takes you a few minutes to notice the coffee spilling out all over the counter.

You wear your sunglasses in the grocery store because it doesn't occur to you to take them off.

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Specializes in ICU.

All of your Dt patients recognize you because you're at the bar at 0800 for tater tots, eggs, and beer...just like them.

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You walk into Starbucks at 11pm and order extra shots, and even after consistently doing that still get asked, "are you sure you'll still be able to go to bed?"

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ER and ICU!!!.
you dream of a night shift utopia where stores and malls are open 24 hours and nothing noisy happens before noon.

saying good morning and good night are confusing.

I work split shifts and no matter what instead of goodbye say good night. This can make some people mad.

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Specializes in Rodeo Nursing (Neuro).

Hooray for beer and doughnuts--the breakfast of champions!

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Specializes in Med/surg, ER/ED,rehab ,nursing home.

OOOPS sounds like something I did a time or two. Including stop signs, and not remembering the last mile you drove. Did I stop at the stop sign? Or did I just keep driving?

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You take your last break 30mins before end of shift so you can grab a quick snack use the bathroom, brush your teeth and wash your face eliminating the need to stop between the front door and bed scurbs left in a trail on the way to bed if even making it out of them at all!

Your preschooler tells her class and teachers she wants to be nurse when she grows up so she can sleep all day!

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You carry a flashlight in your pocket "just in case"

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You have a sign with a skull and crossbones on it taped to your front door warning people what will happen if they knock or ring the door bell before 4pm. LOL Good one.

Sandy

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When all the missionaries--even the JWs---leave you strictly alone because you've flung the door open when they've interrupted your sleep, murder in your eye, hair wild, and shrieked "THIS PLACE BETTER BE ON FIRE!"

True story.

When the name tag on your apartment mailbox says "Day sleeper with a gun"

True story.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, home-care.
When you realize on the way home from work that you're out of wine and curse the liquor stores for not being open at 0730!!
:welcome:

When you realize you have fallen asleep in the parking lot of the liquor store waiting for them to open... Then go buy your bottle of wine looking like last nights left over drunk....LOL:lol2:

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Specializes in Surgical wards, Elderly Care.
When the thought of getting up at 5AM to go to work sounds disgusting, yet you're routinely up at that time anyhow - and working.

I've had problems recognizing many of the residents as I walk thru the dining room on my way out the door. (Who ARE all these people?):)

When you look at the clock at 5am and are full of malicious glee at the idea of all your colleagues crawling out of bed for the dayshift

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