VOL. III, NO. 12
MAY 11, 1962

'Pye' Suffers From Tomatoitis

"Hello, may I help you?

"Yes, I'm supposed to deliver this cleaning to someone."

"Will you please sit down and wait?''

"Gee, if I'd known I'd have to wait I would have brought my favorite homework - chemistry. Ugh!"

"What's the matter? Are you sick?"

"No, that just reminds me of last week when I sat down to tie my shoe; and when I stood up, the chair came with me. I would still like to know who chews banana gum."

"Ouch!"

"Oh, I didn't mean to kick you. It's just a bad habit I have in swinging my legs. Say, aren't you Nurse Wills?"

"Yes, who are you?"

"Sue Pyron, but everyone calls me 'Pye'. I'm suppose to deliver this . . .

Dr. Zorba, Miss Wills, please come to the operating room immediately.

"Well, I guess I must leave. You know the hospital is a very busy place."

"I know. It's all so exciting, that's why I want to be a medical technologist after I get out of Illinois Wesleyan university."

"Say, why don't you come along? This is only going to be a student operation."

"Gee, thanks! This might be good for the Westerner, a real "inside" story. You see I'm chief copyreader for the paper."

"Here we are. Stay over on this side and keep quiet."

"Oh, oh! I think I dropped my contact lens over between the liver and the pancreas."

"Shhhhhhhh"

"Oh well, it's too late now."
(Minutes later, operation is over)

"That was exciting but who is the handsome doctor?"

"Dr. Ben Casey!"

"Young lady are you feeling all right? What did you have for lunch?"

"Let's see, tomato soup with a bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes." sandwich. I love tomatoes."

"Just as I thought. Look at the rash on your arms. You're suffering from tomatoitis. Dr. Zorba, put this girl in a month's isolation."

"Yipee!"

"Sue, it's time to get up for school."

"Oh Mother, why did you have to ruin it?!"