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struggle4progress

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1. Dear Robby --- I just fell off a ladder and now a piece of broken bone is sticking out of my forearm.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 12:32 PM

Aug 30

My wife thinks I should go to the ER right away but that just doesn't seem manly to me. What do you think I should do?

-- Busted

Dear Busted ---

The ER is the last place you should want to go! It's full of know-it-alls who went to med school instead of getting real jobs. Just mix a bottle of yellow mustard with a sack of plaster of paris and slap it on your bump. You'll be fine

-- Robby

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