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Mama Kat Thursday: The Golden Flow Gag

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For me, the first Thursday of every Monday is typically a "lunch out" day for my Yoga class at a Mexican restaurant next door. At one of those lunch outs, I got to talking with "Bob," across the table, a man of contemporary age with me. (He and his wife both attend the Yoga class.) Come to find out, he and I were both active duty in the Air Force at the same time , back in the mid 1970's. I was an enlisted medic and he was a pilot. He's a retired Colonel now, but back then, he'd was probably just a young Lieutenant or Captain. I told him I'd been a medic and that's what inspired him to tell me hilarious story about "Golden Flow." Now "Golden Flow," is what we used to call drug urinalysis back in the 70's. It was random urinalysis testing. You'd get a message to show up at the hospital lab on a certain date and time, then you'd go, be handed a plastic specimen cup, then get in line to go one by one into the...