Rhetorical Questions

I was accused of not taking care of my own patients tonight. I asked her to start an IV for me on one patient (me and another nurse tried and failed) and I asked the tech to start a Foley catheter who in turn asked her for help with it.

I then hear her scream "Well fuck, why am I taking care of his fucking patients?  The only thing I haven't done for him is his assessment."

We've been working together tonight in the same section by this point for 2.5 hours and that's all I've asked her to do. Start an IV we had already missed. The tech asked for help doing her job. I didn't ask her to do it.

Anyway, I can tell she's fuming so I watch my patients remotely from the other end of the ED and I can hear her say to the charge nurse "If he would stop eating his fucking tacos maybe he could take care of his fucking patients and I wouldn't have to."

A little while later I go to the charge nurse to explain what had happened from my point of view.  He cuts me off and asks me if my patients are taken care of, if I'm caught up. I say yes and try again to explain and he cuts me off and says make sure my shit is done.  I explain again I'm caught up minus some documentation.

Whatever.  I only asked her to do one thing. Heaven forbid she get off her high horse and help.

Here's what I got out of tonight: Don't ever ask her for help, heaven forbid I set her off on a racist tirade attacking me personally, and don't ask this tech for help cause she'll throw me under the bus.

Neither one of them can look me in the eye after this, both avoid me (and I them).  So why is this still bothering me?  Chances of me being written up are nonexistent.  It's over with, I'm at home and don't go back to work until Tuesday.  Why am I still up?  Why am I frustrated over this situation?

I should pull an Elsa and let it go.

Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

This riddle has plagued me for years and I'm sure it has done the same for most anybody who has watched Alice in Wonderland (and apparently I'm not the first to be writing on this).  I was bored and asked Siri about this when bored the other day and she directed me to Wikipedia saying "Because Poe wrote on both".

I liked this answer so much I obviously decided to write a post.  Doing a little more research into it I found that Lewis Carroll never intended to have an answer for the riddle.  From the book:

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. 

"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?" 

"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter. 

"Nor I," said the March Hare. 

Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."

So he never had any intentions on answering his own riddle.  Nice.  He did come up with an answer after being bugged for so long.  He wrote:  

Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!

And then stated in a disclaimer that the original riddle has no answer.  

So if you haven't looked up why A raven is like a writing desk, here you go.  As for me, I'm going to ask Siri more questions about random stuff until I fall asleep (you should ask what she's doing for Christmas, it changes every time and funny all the time).