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Idiots & Friends: ‘Yo quiero Taco Bell!’
Sierra Vista Herald ^ | Christopher Zimmermann

Posted on 05/22/2016 9:11:31 AM PDT by SandRat

Comas. Ha ha. There’s a funny topic. In the news recently was the story of a man named Jake Booth, who is a 35-year-old Army veteran living in Florida. He had suffered a heart attack as a result of a bad case of pneumonia and was put into a medically-induced coma. He woke from the coma on April 3, after a full 48 days of lying unconscious in a hospital bed. As he slowly opened his eyes, he saw his closest friends and family members sitting anxiously by his side, waiting for him to speak his first words. You would think he would say something meaningful like, “Thank you my beloved friends and family members for waiting faithfully by my side until I recovered from this grave illness. If not for your prayers and loving support, I surely would have succumbed to the cold embrace of death itself.” Instead, the first thing he said was, “I want Taco Bell.”

You have to wonder how his family members and friends, who sat loyally by his bed for over a month, felt after learning that their most beloved family member’s first words were to ask for cheap, imitation Mexican food instead of one of them. Not that I blame him. When you get the munchies from being in a coma for 48 days, you just can’t beat a bag of Taco Bell soft tacos (Note to millennials: I’m not making a drug reference here).

I’m assuming that after Jake is fully recovered he will be offered a job as the new spokesman for Taco Bell. What could be better for the marketing geniuses at Taco Bell than to use an Army veteran to be the new Taco Bell Chihuahua. Jake is probably going to be eating free tacos for life. I just hope that all the other fast food giants don’t start kidnapping military veterans and putting them into medically induced comas after showing them photos of their products and hoping they will ask for them when they wake up. Veterans from across the land could soon be waking up from comas and saying random things like, “Blimpies,” “Panda Express,” “Krispy Kreme,” or “Wienerschnitzel.”


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: coma; jakebooth; tacobell; veteran; yoquierotacobell

1 posted on 05/22/2016 9:11:31 AM PDT by SandRat
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To: SandRat

Those Schnitzengrubens wipe me out...


2 posted on 05/22/2016 9:13:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (To the GOPee: "Giving the Democrats the Supreme Court means you ARE the Democrats.")
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To: kiryandil

Eat a lot of fruit with it...


3 posted on 05/22/2016 9:19:00 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SandRat

I saw this a few days ago.

If I ever woke up from a coma asking for Taco Bell, I think my physician could safely assume that the coma had left me with irreparable brain damage.


4 posted on 05/22/2016 9:22:12 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: SandRat

Although I like Taco Bell tacos, an Italian beef sandwich from Portillo’s would be my choice.


5 posted on 05/22/2016 9:23:28 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: SandRat

I have a friend that is a recovery nurse at a surgery center. She says people say all kinds of odd stuff upon awaking. She is a great beauty and often is called an angel and has even been proposed to on the spot.


6 posted on 05/22/2016 9:24:42 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: exDemMom

“Tell me, how is he?”
“I won’t lie to you, its bad.”
“Tell me, doctor. I need to know.”
“He says he likes Taco Bell.”
“Noooo!”


7 posted on 05/22/2016 9:26:57 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: SandRat

Never been in a coma, but when the docs were putting my stent in I was semi-awake and at one point asked them “Are we having fun yet?”

Prayers for a full recovery so he can enjoy that Taco Bell.


8 posted on 05/22/2016 9:28:17 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: SandRat

Much ado about nothing. Who knows...it could be a family joke or have some other meaning to those nearby.


9 posted on 05/22/2016 9:31:45 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: SandRat
Ha ha. This brings back memories.

Yo Quiero Taco Bell

10 posted on 05/22/2016 9:37:12 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: JimRed

I was in the hospital, Wound Vac in my left arm, PICC line in my right. After getting a little too much Ativan, I told the nurses changing the Wound Vac dressing they were turning me into a Borg.


11 posted on 05/22/2016 9:45:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: SandRat

Reminds me of the old THEY’LL DO IT EVERY TIME cartoons by Jimmy Hatlo.

Fireman is pulled from a burning building after he is knocked down by smoke inhalation!
Upon revival, the first words out of his mouth are...”Hey, Someone give me a smoke!”


12 posted on 05/22/2016 10:44:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: JimRed

I was prepped for open heart surgery & as they wheeled me toward the OR, I began singing Weird Al’s “Like a Surgeon”.

Woke up ten hours later.

;^)


13 posted on 05/22/2016 11:41:10 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

During the 1939 Winter War some Finnish soldiers ducked into an unheated tent used for storing combat dead. As they lit up, an eerie voice came from the corpses, “Hey, give me a cigarette.”

To their amazement they found someone with five bullet holes in him, but he was not dead. His semi frozen state had kept him from bleeding out and they were able to save him.


14 posted on 05/22/2016 11:48:05 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: kiryandil

When I woke up after my knee surgery I was ravenously hungry, everything tasted great even Wendy’s chili cheese fries.


15 posted on 05/22/2016 11:50:49 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: elcid1970

OMW! You dredged up a memory. I was singing at the top of my lungs once after they had given me some propophol (sp?). And I have a very big voice — not particularly good, but I have great lung power. I’ll bet they couldn’t wait for me to conk out.

I actually knew that I was singing, but it seemed perfectly okay at the time. Embarrassed later when I remembered.


16 posted on 05/22/2016 1:18:48 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: Flick Lives

IMO opinion it is not that bad tasting, but who knows what’s in it? So I just pass on Taco HELL.


17 posted on 05/22/2016 1:20:06 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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