h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As it happens I was on a shoot last week where I was a *point of view* camera on a hospital gurney as it raced out of an ambulance, down an hall, through er, and into MRI. For realism a bag of saline solution was put on an arm above me and initially it was opened to get the *drip*. In all the excitement someone forgot to close the drip and I ended up with a very wet crotch. Luckily the weather was extremely hot and it dried for a while, but as it happens your riposte is very timely.

A likely story, my friend...hey, there's no shame in getting older...

c'mon, admit it. someone tickled you

Oh, I am wetting myself, ing!

Now that I have amused you all, I can tell you that the same kind of POV shot is required tomorrow for the same video, this time with a full surgical staff in an operating room. I am hoping I come out of it with a dry crotch.

Zoomer....is it only hospital shows that make you wet yourself?

Does the sight of blood make you a little queasy??

maybe it's the drama and... dare I sat it, excitement

Luckily I have the magic 2 dimensional, black and white filter called the viewfinder. I have shot a lot of stuff with a camera that would probably make my skin crawl or my breakfast reappear if I had to see it for real. Girl, I've got stories!

Puppet!

If they make you shoot such icky things...you shouldn't be suprised if every now and again you...well, wet yourself....you don't need to make up silly stories about "saline solution"...we understand !

So if they *accidentally* fill my lap with blood tomorrow?

Then maybe you should see a doctor...but don't worry, it sounds like there'll be a few there anyway !

If I was to wet myself, don't you think it would have happened when they suspended me with my camera by two thin aircraft cables 120' over a carnival?

not unless your pee defied gravity

Well, that's probably when I'd be more likely to wet myself...but maybe you have a constitution like my brother...the biggest hard a*se I know...and can do things that could endanger his life without blinking an eye...but show the boy blood and he turns pale...and gets a little faint...

(jay, if you're reading this, you know I you, but you're a big wuss !)

The only time I actually might have done myself an injustice as it were was when I was shooting an interview between a psychiatrist and a violent psychopath. The nut job walked right up to the supposed one way glass and screamed *I know you are taking pictures of the inside of my head and I know who you are!*

oh, that's gotta be creepy

kind of like the old horror trick of the bad guy looking directly into the camera

Dude...they're onto you!

I wanted to be a doctor, but I don't like other peoples' blood. One of my sons is the same, and the other is up a river in Egypt...

I've never had a problem with blood...I suppose it's got something to do with being around kids so much growing up...someone was always bleeding or broken...and I've always had a "mother" complex...so blood, vomit...all the good stuff...I can deal with...if I have to...