Yeah, but remember this is before the era of good antibiotics. This was not an empty threat. In 1924 President Coolidge's son Calvin Jr got a blister during a tennis match at the White House. It wasn't properly treated, got infected, and he was dead in a week. This was the president's son, with access to the best health care available in the nation! If something got infected, your only option was to keep it clean and hope you healed. If it progressed to gangrene, the only option was amputation and hope it hadn't gone systemic.
The obsession with germs and cleanliness in the early part of the last century had it's roots in real causes. This was the time between when they learned how germs caused infections and when they had any real ability to do anything about it. Just about everyone knew someone who had been killed or gravely injured by infection and it was a real fear.
Wow, I had not even heard that about President Coolidge's son. But you make a really good point.
Actually I knew someone who in the 1980s got a paper cut and (eventually) wound up in the hospital. But stories like that are much, much rarer in my lifetime.
An infected wound on the leg could lead to it needing to be amputated, or could cripple it in other ways. Infections could be a lot more serious back then, too.
If she'd lost a foot, she'd still be able to go to the "dinner" part of a dinner-dance. As she's looking in reasonable health there, the whole nasty business probably happened some months or years before.
but where is her date? her date to proclaim in another ad that he'll never date her again? and why is hiding behind a curtain watching all stalker like?
this ad just brings out way too many questions in me!!! :P
Yeah, it DOES seem like melodrama. But the thing is, in 1936, in the pre-antibiotics era, cuts getting infected WERE a big thing. People literally did die from scratches and cuts and such that got infected, as there was no penicillin, no Neosporin, no IV antibiotics for systemic infections. The ad IS being dramatic, sure, but hey, gotta sell the product somehow. ;)
As I mentioned above, in 1924 President Coolidge's son died from getting a blister during a tennis match, so yeah, things we don't give a second thought to were far more serious then. Not every cut and scrape resulted in death or loss of a limb, but it was a real concern.
Yeah, even minor wounds can turn nasty without effective antibiotics. In the past year, I've had two coworkers who would have at least lost a hand after a *cat* bite without antibiotics! O.O
Well I scraped my foot on a rusty nail by total accident a few years ago and that could have been realllly nasty. However I'd had a tet shot so I was ok.
i've got a lot of similar questions to yours too....not to mention she's all stalker like hiding behind the curtain.....
did she have a date? if so, where is he? to my comment, someone answered that maybe it was a dinner dance....okay so where is her date? but why stay for dancing if you can't dance?
Because she doesn't own a car and doesn't know how to drive AND SHE IS ON CRUTCHES. So no walking home. Pretty much stuck there until her ride wants to leave. Which sucks.
Scary or not, true story is that one of my best friends from high school had a cut on her leg she didn't take care of and it actually went gangrene and SHE HAD TO HAVE HER WHOLE BLOODY LEG AMPUTATED.
For real. In this day and age. Seriously.
So...maybe the girl in the picture had HER leg amputated. My friend will never dance again and the best job she's ever gonna get is in a phone room.
My friend will never dance again and the best job she's ever gonna get is in a phone room.
Um, what? There's a guy in my office with only one leg and he's a lawyer. Since when does having only one leg preclude you from getting an education and an office job?
Kudos to your friend, but I do hope you realize that there's a lot of different stories out there in the naked city... and plenty of other factors at play regarding my poor friend.
Take it up with her, not me, I'm just an observer here.
In general though, there *is* a lot of discrimination in the workplace, regardless of what's right or fair. I saw a great ABC expose of employment hiring prejudices where they prepared excellent resumes and hired actors to go to job interviews. The 'resumes were all equally stellar, but the 'candidates' fell into two categories - one super attractive and physically superior, and the other shall we just say, a little challenged (older, overweight, mild physical handicap, balding or etc...)
Theinterviews were conducted via hidden camera. In 100% of the cases, there were undeniable differences in the way the two classes of applicants were received and treated, what kind of questions they were asked, etc.
The interviewers skewed favorably toward the attractive and physically superior candidates. Is that fair? Who knows. It is human nature? Probably. In some sort of sick sense it's probably our innate human survival-of-the-fittest protocols bending to the realities of a modern world.
The woman I know WILL never dance again. She already had a great education but after her extensive physical ordeal(s) I regret to observe that her mindset is no longer front-office peppy.
She just posted a new venture on LinkedIn and there was a glaring typo in her posting of the name of her new venture. I senta friendly note (we ALL make typo's, this is nbd) and got back a defensive diatribe about how maybe I forgot that she was half-blind and can't walk... etc. Um OK EWWW.
This is why adults often move on and drift away from childhood buddies.
But seriously, if I was hiring for any kind of office job, I'd want someone capable of suiting up, showing up, taking responsibilty and not launching into a dog-ate-my-homework diatribe over a frickin' typo... people like that can seriously get in the way of productivity for one's entire team. Proper business communication protocol required only that she ignore me, fix it or not, and only maybe even say thanks....
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-27 12:36 am (UTC)The obsession with germs and cleanliness in the early part of the last century had it's roots in real causes. This was the time between when they learned how germs caused infections and when they had any real ability to do anything about it. Just about everyone knew someone who had been killed or gravely injured by infection and it was a real fear.
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:45 am (UTC)Actually I knew someone who in the 1980s got a paper cut and (eventually) wound up in the hospital. But stories like that are much, much rarer in my lifetime.
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:10 am (UTC)AND why would she get all dressed and go to a ball that she knows she can't dance at??
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:55 am (UTC)this ad just brings out way too many questions in me!!! :P
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:57 am (UTC)did she have a date? if so, where is he? to my comment, someone answered that maybe it was a dinner dance....okay so where is her date? but why stay for dancing if you can't dance?
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Date: 2010-06-27 11:02 am (UTC)For real. In this day and age. Seriously.
So...maybe the girl in the picture had HER leg amputated. My friend will never dance again and the best job she's ever gonna get is in a phone room.
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Date: 2010-06-28 07:13 am (UTC)Um, what? There's a guy in my office with only one leg and he's a lawyer. Since when does having only one leg preclude you from getting an education and an office job?
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Date: 2010-06-28 08:47 am (UTC)Take it up with her, not me, I'm just an observer here.
In general though, there *is* a lot of discrimination in the workplace, regardless of what's right or fair. I saw a great ABC expose of employment hiring prejudices where they prepared excellent resumes and hired actors to go to job interviews. The 'resumes were all equally stellar, but the 'candidates' fell into two categories - one super attractive and physically superior, and the other shall we just say, a little challenged (older, overweight, mild physical handicap, balding or etc...)
Theinterviews were conducted via hidden camera. In 100% of the cases, there were undeniable differences in the way the two classes of applicants were received and treated, what kind of questions they were asked, etc.
The interviewers skewed favorably toward the attractive and physically superior candidates. Is that fair? Who knows. It is human nature? Probably. In some sort of sick sense it's probably our innate human survival-of-the-fittest protocols bending to the realities of a modern world.
The woman I know WILL never dance again. She already had a great education but after her extensive physical ordeal(s) I regret to observe that her mindset is no longer front-office peppy.
She just posted a new venture on LinkedIn and there was a glaring typo in her posting of the name of her new venture. I senta friendly note (we ALL make typo's, this is nbd) and got back a defensive diatribe about how maybe I forgot that she was half-blind and can't walk... etc. Um OK EWWW.
This is why adults often move on and drift away from childhood buddies.
But seriously, if I was hiring for any kind of office job, I'd want someone capable of suiting up, showing up, taking responsibilty and not launching into a dog-ate-my-homework diatribe over a frickin' typo... people like that can seriously get in the way of productivity for one's entire team. Proper business communication protocol required only that she ignore me, fix it or not, and only maybe even say thanks....
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Date: 2010-06-27 08:16 pm (UTC)Sheesh. She can still dance! If she can find a guy who's not a total spaz and freaks out over her crutches. Poor thing.