I had tears streaming down my face watching this....
Horner's syndrome
So, littered streets and consumption-junction (Toronto's public transit) irritate me. Now you know.Back to veterinary medicine. A big, friendly, middle-aged, black lab was presented to me the other day with an "eye problem."Indeed his left eye was affected but the problem was not of the eye per se, but rather of the sympathetic innervation to the eye(s).Heh?Let me illustrate: If I scared the s--t out of you, your sympathetic nervous system would kick in. Your heart would start to race, your blood vessels in your muscles dilate to allow more oxygen to reach them, your eyes pop out a little, your eyes (lids) are wide open, and your pupils are...
Don't litter
Upon witnessing a man throwing his half-eaten, wrapper-clad, chocolate bar into the street today I turned to him and foolishly asked, "Is the street a garbage can?" He gave me a dirty look after which I turned around and entered a furniture store. At the cash, I noticed that he followed me into the store and asked, "Were you talkin' to me?" To which I bravely replied, "Yes, I was." He asked me who I was to which I replied, "I live in the city." He then turned around, sat at a table on display in the store, rolled a joint or cigarette, and walked out. How ironic: a piece of trash littering the street...I was both upset for having put myself...
