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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Another story from the emergency room
Date: 2 Aug 1994 03:55:57 GMT

From volcifer@ccs.neu.edu Mon Aug 1 20:48:52 PDT 1994 > Woman is rushed to hospital, about to give birth. She doesn't quite make it
> to the delivery room and drops the kid in the elevator with the help of a
> nurse. Woman is mortified to have given birth in the elevator. Nurse says,
> "Don't worry--last year, a woman gave birth on the front lawn." Woman says,
> "Yeah--that was me, too."

Love the identification of the R(only)eaders' D(only)igest as a CIA front! They'll be furious that word got out!

Here's a post from 1992:
From: linden Wed May 13 21:23:18 PDT 1992

Sorry to inject some folklore into this newsgroup. Scant hours after someone asked for birth legends, I find one in my local paper! What *is* this thing they call "karma"?

     "Wanda Tacey of the nursing staff tells of a woman who went into labor
     so fast that she gave birth on the elevator [No, I don't know if they
     named the kid "Otis" -- Ed.]  When it was all over, one of the nurses
     tried to comfort the embarrassed mother by telling her it was nothing
     compared to the woman who gave birth last year on the front lawn.
     The mother cried out "That was me!"..."

     Los Altos Town Crier, page 28, May 13 1992.

Under the circumstances, I did the only thing I could... I rewrote the story in the first person, and sent it to Ann Landers.

--
Peter van der Linden linden@eng.sun.com /// Fave Dating Game question:

Q. What is the most unusual place that you have ever executed code?

1. That would be in da Bus, Bob...