John Schweddy is a local chef in Chapel Hill famous for his Christmas desserts, one of the most sought after being his Almond Encrusted Cinnamon Balls. He is often asked to produce them in the thousands during the Holiday season which leads to tremendous stress. John Schweddy also suffers from hyperhidrosis, a common condition in which a person sweats excessively. Commonly affected areas include the armpits and palms of the hands. John is afraid of people finding out about his condition and for that reason he refuses to shake hands with customers. …

SA down-on-his luck writer wins a 100 million lottery and fulfills his life-long-dream. He buys a British title, Lordship Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham and the castle that comes with this title for nearly 80 million. Unfortunately he failed to read the fine print; “the new owner cannot inhabit the castle for 50 years, or until the last of the retired clowns currently inhabiting the castle are no more.” . …

Senior year comes around and a group of entitled high-school kids rents a two-bedroom, beach-front condo for the traditional “beach week”. Regrettably for their neighbor, 25 of the kids’ best friends plan to make the condo the week’s hangout and partyplace. The first night of revelry is wild for the seniors, both the high schoolers and the neighbors. The high schoolers over imbibe and there are serious episodes of “calling Ralph at the porcelain”. Neighbors bang on the shared wall several times to “keep it down”, thinking that they are only relating to the music and the student’s chattering. …

An academic director is hired at a new medical school and it becomes her goal to implement a new curriculum. Based on her anatomical experience or lack thereof, she intends to make gross anatomy an elective and/or let students learn anatomy exclusively using artificial intelligence. To promote her new curriculum, she invites a half dozen students to her office kitchen and plans to demonstrate how to spatchcock a chicken even though she has no culinary training. While splitting “the chicken” (she had actually purchased a capon weighing well over 15 pounds), …

A baby boomer undergoes a physical exam by a resident physician and he is prescribed a visit to an otolaryngologist. Not knowing the specialty of such a physician, he asks the resident to explain the referral. The resident responds that an otolaryngologist is basically a deep throat doctor and that the boomer has a mass in his neck. The boomer’s first response is to laugh and the resident is baffled. Nevertheless, the boomer visits an otolaryngologist and after CT imaging he is informed the mass extends from just distal to his left subclavian artery, to his thyroid. …

Dr. Bob, a radiologists, is approaching retirement and he too often preaches to his young residents how good the old times were. He expounds on the superior merits of an upper GI series over current CT imaging for revealing an enlarged heart chamber. To demonstrate, Dr. Bob pulls out a two liter bottle of barium and proceeds to drink it. Next, he puts Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock n Roll on his CD player and begins to mimic Tom Cruises dance in Risky Business. …

Ted finishes his first year gross anatomy exam just in time to head to New Orleans for Spring break. It has been his dream to mimic the famous scene in Easy Rider, except that Ted does not own a motorcycle. Nevertheless, he does plan to drive his 30 year old Mustang from D.C. to New Orleans. He powers up, cranks up Steppenwolf in Spotify, but One hundred miles into the 1000 mile trip the air conditioning gives out. Ted takes his shirt off and lowers the windows as he continues his adventure. He drives straight for approximately 10 hours during the middle part of the day, with a blistering sun and a temperature of close to 90 degrees. Upon reaching his hotel, it is freezing inside and he dons his jacket, rushes six flights of stairs (due to broken elevator) to shower and hit the town that night. . …

Ed believed that his dad Clark was superman because he could do most everything. In reality, Clark Kent, and the stress is getting to him. Indeed, he has developed an eating disorder, and he is now becoming more of a Supperman. He decides to take a vacation and go horseback riding in Cape Town. . …