[kioleanu]

Only very slightly tangential, I remember when my son had his surgery and had to be in the hospital, they would have these dosing machines for the medicine and they would start throwing a warning sign 3 minutes before the syringe was empty, every 30 seconds and then a proper alarm when it was empty. Now, we were supposed to call a nurse to remove the syringe, and each nurse had their own preference on when to be called. Some said call us when the warning starts, some said call us a minute before and some said call us when the red alarm goes off. We found this strange until one of them explained it is simply related to the amount of chit chat they wanted to do with us, as the syringe always had to go out at the red alarm