In the clinic today says a nurse taking blood: yesterday a man came to donate blood without a bat. I said to him, “Man, put on a bagel.” And he said to me, “I can’t bend, I have a radiculitis.”

I sat down and put him on a bagel.

He comes with chocolate today. I say to him, “What you do, don’t have to.”

He replied, “Please take it. I am ashamed. I didn’t have a radiculite, I just didn’t want to wear a basil. Now my conscience is tormenting.”