Bad Drivers

This is a typical wall at work. Lovely, huh? The damage is caused by beds being moved. We hear frequent jokes about women drivers, but really, the men drivers are just as bad. On a bad day, especially large chunks of plaster and paint tend to get knocked off the walls. Shoving beds around helps relieve stress.

If we're expecting important visitors or patients, a crew will come and plaster and paint, but it never stays nice for long. The rooms are just too damn small to be moving beds in and out of. The door jambs to all of the rooms are especially lovely. There is only an inch or two of clearance, which is not nearly enough when maneuvering a heavy, hard to steer bed. The fire doors to each room no longer have a tight fit. Oh well, if there was a fire, the sprinklers in the rooms would put the fire out. Oh, wait, there aren't any sprinklers in the patient rooms.

This is just one more reason why people look around in horror and disgust when they arrive. Too bad we can't drug the visitors, in addition to the patients, so that it wouldn't bother them so much.