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I just thought of another one. When I was in college my 40k budget was limited to gift money, cans I found and returned for the redemption money (5 cents each), money I got from being a psychology department lab rat, and donating plasma.

It was the donating plasma part that got me. To kill time while I waited I brought codex, a pen, and a small piece of paper to write out my next army list for that night's gaming. The attending medical student took one look at the codex and said, "Warhammer? My ex boyfriend plays that." The then immediately proceeds to eviscerate my arm vein so bad I can't give blood out of that arm. Then she turns around and does it to the OTHER arm too.

The guy in charge comes over and is astonished, as this was the first (and second time I gather) that he had ever seen her mess up so bad.

I'm assuming her ex boyfriend and her parted ways on bad terms and Warhammer had something to do with it. No need to assault me with a weapon though.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I just thought of another one. When I was in college my 40k budget was limited to gift money, cans I found and returned for the redemption money (5 cents each), money I got from being a psychology department lab rat, and donating plasma.

It was the donating plasma part that got me. To kill time while I waited I brought codex, a pen, and a small piece of paper to write out my next army list for that night's gaming. The attending medical student took one look at the codex and said, "Warhammer? My ex boyfriend plays that." The then immediately proceeds to eviscerate my arm vein so bad I can't give blood out of that arm. Then she turns around and does it to the OTHER arm too.

The guy in charge comes over and is astonished, as this was the first (and second time I gather) that he had ever seen her mess up so bad.

I'm assuming her ex boyfriend and her parted ways on bad terms and Warhammer had something to do with it. No need to assault me with a weapon though.

Well gak, though not FLGS related I think we have our winner here.

This is indeed a teflon-coated thread!

 cuda1179 wrote:
I just thought of another one. When I was in college my 40k budget was limited to gift money, cans I found and returned for the redemption money (5 cents each), money I got from being a psychology department lab rat, and donating plasma.

It was the donating plasma part that got me. To kill time while I waited I brought codex, a pen, and a small piece of paper to write out my next army list for that night's gaming. The attending medical student took one look at the codex and said, "Warhammer? My ex boyfriend plays that." The then immediately proceeds to eviscerate my arm vein so bad I can't give blood out of that arm. Then she turns around and does it to the OTHER arm too.

The guy in charge comes over and is astonished, as this was the first (and second time I gather) that he had ever seen her mess up so bad.

I'm assuming her ex boyfriend and her parted ways on bad terms and Warhammer had something to do with it. No need to assault me with a weapon though.

Ha! All men are responsible for the transgressions of all other men. If we all take one for the team occasionally, there's less likely to be outbreaks of female-on-male mass murders. It really is better for the species this way

 cuda1179 wrote:
I just thought of another one. When I was in college my 40k budget was limited to gift money, cans I found and returned for the redemption money (5 cents each), money I got from being a psychology department lab rat, and donating plasma.

It was the donating plasma part that got me. To kill time while I waited I brought codex, a pen, and a small piece of paper to write out my next army list for that night's gaming. The attending medical student took one look at the codex and said, "Warhammer? My ex boyfriend plays that." The then immediately proceeds to eviscerate my arm vein so bad I can't give blood out of that arm. Then she turns around and does it to the OTHER arm too.

The guy in charge comes over and is astonished, as this was the first (and second time I gather) that he had ever seen her mess up so bad.

I'm assuming her ex boyfriend and her parted ways on bad terms and Warhammer had something to do with it. No need to assault me with a weapon though.

Tell me you filed charges, or at least sued. That was totally uncalled for, and almost certainly illegal on her part.

 the_Armyman wrote:
Ha! All men are responsible for the transgressions of all other men. If we all take one for the team occasionally, there's less likely to be outbreaks of female-on-male mass murders. It really is better for the species this way

There are a few women out there that hate warhammer pretty badly thanks to me!

 Vulcan wrote:
Tell me you filed charges, or at least sued. That was totally uncalled for, and almost certainly illegal on her part.

Probably not. Somebody getting annoyed and having a hard time sticking a needle is almost certainly not actionable. Even if it were, good luck proving it was intentional.

I thought the first arm was an accident. The second one was surely on purpose. In general I have huge veins that are extremely easy to poke, or so I've been told.

The worst part of the ordeal was that they refused to compensate me for anything because I couldn't donate anything do to having two messed-up arms.

I've had phlebotomists blow my veins even when they had no reason to be angry with me.

There are limits to how many times a patient can be stuck, however (2 times is the maximum unless there is patient or Doctor consent to keep going). If she went beyond that limit she is breaking hospital/clinic policy and should have faced disciplinary action.

 gorgon wrote:
I've had phlebotomists blow my veins even when they had no reason to be angry with me.

Blowing your Vein? That should be in FLGS Whore Stories.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I thought the first arm was an accident. The second one was surely on purpose. In general I have huge veins that are extremely easy to poke, or so I've been told.

The worst part of the ordeal was that they refused to compensate me for anything because I couldn't donate anything do to having two messed-up arms.

Did you ask her to take you out for dinner? She makes my inner Slaneesh tingle

How do you just sit in a chair and let someone mangle both of your arms? No way she'd touch me again after the first one.

Yeah, when she mentioned her ex played and fethed up your first arm, it was time to ask for someone else or run. I'm sure that occurred in hindsight. Nurses are fething nuts. I grew up spending time in a hospital and even dated a nurse as an adult (my dad was a doc, so chill guys; not too terribly weird, as I visited dad at work. And the nurse I dated was one of his coworkers who was my age). Nurses are whacko. Technical terms only here.

 gorgon wrote:
I've had phlebotomists blow my veins even when they had no reason to be angry with me.

When I was going through liver failure a few years ago, i had to give 47 vials of blood over the course of a week. Let me tell you, they blew some veins, and I learned that the Docs have MANY places to draw blood from if the arms dont suffice :(

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Yeah, when she mentioned her ex played and fethed up your first arm, it was time to ask for someone else or run. I'm sure that occurred in hindsight. Nurses are fething nuts. I grew up spending time in a hospital and even dated a nurse as an adult (my dad was a doc, so chill guys; not too terribly weird, as I visited dad at work. And the nurse I dated was one of his coworkers who was my age). Nurses are whacko. Technical terms only here.

Given the garbage nurses go through daily at work, I'm not terribly surprised to hear they tend toward insanity in their private lives.

Here's a short horror story from my local shop. They recently started stocking 40k stuff after merging with two other game shops in the area; previously, the owner looked at 40k and was told by GW he couldn't stock it because there was another store within 10 miles that stocked it (no clue, that's what he said). Well, with this merger GW was begging him to stock, and he managed to get a small display with like a few starter sets, couple of paints, and various boxes (I think like a good 30ish boxes or product) for free (he says).

The horror story? I looked at the price of AoS, and he's charging $140 for it, or MORE THAN RETAIL. I laughed out loud when someone pointed that out to me. Ironically, Dark Vengeance is still retail price, but AoS had a $140 price tag on it.

 gorgon wrote:
I've had phlebotomists blow my veins even when they had no reason to be angry with me.

I had a trainee do that to me with my right arm, she could not find the vain and was turning that needle around like she was stirring the soup, It was not pleasant

Not to get way off topic here and delete if so but on the medical front, I was living in a small town and had to have a root canal and the dentist didn't use enough of the freezing needle stuff, but then fortunately for him he figured he could use my pain to judge how close he was to the nerve digging around in my tooth so he knew how far to clean out. It was absolutely excruciating.

I've had needles stuck in me and blood taken since I was eleven, but all this is still making me squeamish.

The horror story? I looked at the price of AoS, and he's charging $140 for it, or MORE THAN RETAIL.

I keep seeing new boxes going for a fair bit more than retail on ebay. I can't get me head round it, unless they just include postage (and then some) in the total price.

When I was in the ninth grade, my high school was downtown. A new FLGS opened about a ten minute walk from campus, so my friends and I would often take our lunch breaks down there. On one of our first visits, we noticed the shelf of anime the owner had at the front of the store, and he told us about some of them...but then started to talk about a certain variety of anime...involving tentacles...and kept going, describing his favourite in acute detail, for like half an hour. Bear in mind, we were like, 13/14 years old - so not entirely innocent, and at the time, we thought it was funny, but looking back....yeah....

 General_K wrote:
When I was in the ninth grade, my high school was downtown. A new FLGS opened about a ten minute walk from campus, so my friends and I would often take our lunch breaks down there. On one of our first visits, we noticed the shelf of anime the owner had at the front of the store, and he told us about some of them...but then started to talk about a certain variety of anime...involving tentacles...and kept going, describing his favourite in acute detail, for like half an hour. Bear in mind, we were like, 13/14 years old - so not entirely innocent, and at the time, we thought it was funny, but looking back....yeah....

I've never met anyone who was into that stuff, but I do remember a neighbor I had when I was 14ish who had an... active sex life. When I say active, of course I mean 2 kids to different women in different states, multiple partners every other moth or so, the works. And he let my friends and I know all about it when we hung out at his brother's house. At the time I thought it was cool for someone to be so candid, but now that I'm as old he was at the time, I only cringe.

 General_K wrote:
When I was in the ninth grade, my high school was downtown. A new FLGS opened about a ten minute walk from campus, so my friends and I would often take our lunch breaks down there. On one of our first visits, we noticed the shelf of anime the owner had at the front of the store, and he told us about some of them...but then started to talk about a certain variety of anime...involving tentacles...and kept going, describing his favourite in acute detail, for like half an hour. Bear in mind, we were like, 13/14 years old - so not entirely innocent, and at the time, we thought it was funny, but looking back....yeah....

There was a shop around here for a while when I was younger, more of a model shop but had a single table to play on, that had this gray-toothed, heavy smoker working there that would describe the Hentai videos they had behind the counter with his gravely voice. Major Creepy. My first exposure to the weird that is Japan.

 Vulcan wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Yeah, when she mentioned her ex played and fethed up your first arm, it was time to ask for someone else or run. I'm sure that occurred in hindsight. Nurses are fething nuts. I grew up spending time in a hospital and even dated a nurse as an adult (my dad was a doc, so chill guys; not too terribly weird, as I visited dad at work. And the nurse I dated was one of his coworkers who was my age). Nurses are whacko. Technical terms only here.

Given the garbage nurses go through daily at work, I'm not terribly surprised to hear they tend toward insanity in their private lives.

No more so than anyone else.

That sounds pretty assured. Did a nurse stick a needle in your arm, Bookwrack?

No more so than anyone else.

Yeah, wrong. Wife's been a nurse for 20 years as are most of her friends. Take your average self important jerk and give him the sniffles or god forbid a case of diarrhea for longer then 45 minutes, much less a surgical procedure or trauma, and then bring their douche bag family along for the ride and see how you like dealing with them! These people are medical professionals that are the ones actually caring for you (hint its not the doctor) and you would be amazed how many people treat them like they are stewardesses! Get me a soda, can I have a warm blanket, I want a pillow, and these are the family members not even the patient! Did you ever hear it's a bad idea to send your food back because you don't know what the cook will do to it? Treat a nurse with respect and they will hit that vein on the first try every time !

Saw a reaver get thrown across the room.

Nearly decimating my Metal inquisition models.

Bastard.

 TheCrusadeSmurf wrote:
Saw a reaver get thrown across the room.

Nearly decimating my Metal inquisition models.

Bastard.

No. Not a Reaver Titan. Please no.

Years ago, when I was visiting Banbridge, I noticed a store I had never been to. I popped in, bought a Gallant warjack, chatted a bit with the owner about latest releases, projects etc.

When I got home I told one of my friends about this hobby store I found and the really cool guy who ran it. He looked at me and said the guy who ran the store died a long time ago and the shop had been closed ever since.

Wooooooooooooo!

Only joking... I dont collect Warmachine.

To add to nurse OT discussion, I've been in and out of Hospital for the past four years and the nurses have been fantastic, hard working and very support. Whatever they're being paid, it isn't enough.

 Matthew wrote:

 TheCrusadeSmurf wrote:
Saw a reaver get thrown across the room.

Nearly decimating my Metal inquisition models.

Bastard.

No. Not a Reaver Titan. Please no.

Could've been a Reaver jetbike or an Ellyrian Reaver.

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Is the bit about a shop in Banbridge true, though?