Handwriting Analysis

Do ya'll remember the little German woman, Dr. Ruth Westheimer? She was on the radio, a psychiatrist I think. She talked about sex all the time and that got her on the television talk show circuit. Everyone called her "Dr. Ruth".

She was bordering on elderly at the time, and called herself a sexologist. She had a heavy German accent, which made her the perfect psychiatrist, of course. (At least to the media)

I looked her up, and as best I can tell, she is still living at age 86.

This makes me sad because I said she was "bordering on elderly" before I looked her up. In the 1980's she would have been in her fifties and that ship has now sailed for me.

I need a moment of silence.

Perspective really is everything.

Anywho, She became so popular, that she had her own greeting card line. They were funny and she wrote a little note on the inside, using her own handwriting.

So, one day I am browsing through greeting cards looking for one for Husband and I run across these. Thinking it would be funny to send him one, as we were both in the mental health field, I opened it up to read the text and I almost dropped my Dr. Freud talking doll.

Her handwriting is exactly like Husband's.

I kid you not.

Let me know what you think about that.

What do I think, you ask?

Well, for once, I was speechless.

Still am, for that matter.

Held by a Murderer

You know, you meet a lot of different kinds of crazy folks working in the  mental health field.

And I'm not talking about the patients.

My husband worked in the metro area when our daughter was born. He took a few weeks off to learn how to be a daddy, but when the end of the month came, he had to fill out paperwork, so we all journeyed down to his work place. His co-worker who was there, and between clients, came out to the lobby and cooed and ahhed over our new baby and held her, reminiscing about her own children when they were babies.

She seemed like a pleasant sort, my husband had been in workshops with her (once she was his sparing partner when they took a self defense course), and they had chatted some.

A few months later she got fired.

Seems she was in the emergency room dealing with a client and happened to glance up at the television. "Oh, that movie is about me." she said.

The movie was about a woman who murdered her next door neighbor. With an axe.

Now, I ain't going into more details than that, because I don't want identities to crop up and get all in my face for telling stuff. Although what I'd be telling would be a mystery, since there was a movie and all.

Anyway, she got fired because she lied about have a criminal background, not because she murdered someone.

I mean, when you work for the state, there has to be some morals and ethics!

Upon hearing the story, the first thing I screamed was, "She held my baby!"

Life is weird. You never know who you're gonna meet next.

Just always check 'em for weapons.