Because I am where I am…and because I still have my sense of humor intact, I would like to share a little something with you.

This is something I would like to call:

Things I now know I take for granted at lunch every day!

1. Not having to eat with a chaperone – every day at the Hospital we have to walk to the cafeteria as a group, with a chaperone, who can then let us into the building to eat.  The chaperone has to stay with us for the entirety of the thirty minute meal time.
2. Not having to carry my food on a tray – we are encouraged to grab a tray with our plastic spoons and forks so that it will be easy to carry our different foods to the tables, as sometimes different foods come in different containers.
3. Getting to Choose What I Eat-the lunch menu is the same every week.  EVERY week.  On any given day, you will know what you will be having for lunch.  Indecisive?  Not a problem there.  ha-ha
4. The idea of fruit not counting as a desert!-Yep.  It happened.  Today I thought I was going to choose to eat fruit instead of cabbage and also eat a tiny slice of cake for desert.  The cook was quick to slap my hand and tell me that I could either have the fruit or the cake, but not both.  Of course, I chose the cake.
5. Not having to ask for a plastic knife to cut my food-I don’t really need to explain this, but yes…we have to ask for one.  And I’m sure they have to monitor it’s use.  I questioned this because I felt the fork was equally as “dangerous”.  It got a giggle.
6. Being able to use the bathroom-No bathroom in the lunch room.  You had better use it before you go, or you’ll be waiting until you get back.
7. Being able to leave the room-You are literally locked in the room until your chaperone uses their key to let you out.
8. Being able to choose where you eat-There is only one place, unless you want to eat from the vending machine.

I’d just like to say that this list of things is purely for humor’s sake.  As a disclaimer, I know that all of the above things are understandable and put into place for good reason.  Well, everything except for maybe the fruit thing, lol.

I felt since everything up until now had been so serious, I should share a little mental hospital humor with you.  And I wouldn’t trade my chaperones for the world-they are truly wonderful ladies.

But for real, you guys…let’s be grateful for the little things.  You don’t know what you will miss, until it’s gone.  🙂