Psychologically unhealthy plots
"There's only one thing in this world worth having. Love. L-o-v-e. You love somebody. Somebody loves you. If you don't get that, you take the next best thing. Money, fame, whatever you can grab ... ' begins the blurb from The Next Best Thing, by Charles Mergendahl (Panther 1966). "For Michael Slayton, wealthy, ruthless, demanding, the next best thing was his power over others. For his wife it was a madness she called religion. For his beautiful daughter it was alcohol. For Slayton's son, Roy, it was orgies of sex all over the world. Because the woman who meant love to Roy was the one woman he must never have. Until his desire became too great ..." (Via everythingsecondhand.tumblr.com)
Medical time wasters
1."I'm a veterinary technician. I once had to explain to a frantic client that the ticks she had frantically been trying to remove from her male dog's belly with tweezers were actually his nipples. I also told her she had an extremely well-behaved, patient dog."
2."Had a woman measure her baby's temperature by pre-heating the oven and putting one hand in front of it while the other hand was on the baby's forehead. She told the nurse her baby's fever was about 250 degrees."
