Styrofoam

It's hard because you've got to find the plastic that's actually rough.

Styrofoam's your best.

But styrofoam breaks.

I already tried styrofoam.

I could assign this to the junior, but tonight manic order helps.

I find the back room empty, except for a Styrofoam coffee cup resting on the bench along the far wall.

The bench where Mark always used to perch when he showed up early, pretending to check his phone, but mostly avoiding small talk.

The cup bears a bold lipstick smudge in a deep, vampy brick shade.

Do-it-yourself.

Yeah, it came in a Styrofoam thing that was two-sided.

Wow, so a lot of packaging for that meal.

Yeah, well, who cares about the planet? We want to keep your tomato cold.

To create a facility that can house a host of specialized functions, the design team needed to consider dozens of individual decisions, large and small.

The block walls in the cold food preparation area have internal Styrofoam insulation to keep temperatures low.

There's a separate gluten-free kitchen to prevent cross-contamination.

The marketing department has a recording studio.

Ooh, can you help me build a table? Like-

How about you do it out of foam? [laughs] Styrofoam.

That didn't even cross my mind.

And paint it.

You didn't say 3D printer.

So I, I have plywood, and I have a saw.

And Styrofoam.

And again, it never crossed my mind.

So another approach could be for those patients to use a positional restriction device.

Sometimes they could have inflatable air pockets on a shirt that they would wear at night or a Styrofoam belt that they can wrap at night.

Another interesting treatment that has been developed over the years is a hypoglossal nerve therapy.

So it's basically a simulator that is implanted on either the chin or the neck or the upper chest, and through a wire, it connects to the nerve that moves the tongue, and that's we call the hypoglossal.

You bring your own.

My mom had bought a whole bunch of Styrofoam to-go containers.

And then when we're at her house, you have all these.

Here you go.

You know, we are the only...

Unfortunately, in our area, there is only one processor for Styrofoam within like 400 miles.

And it's actually Coon Rapids Recycling.

Colleen up there that runs that organization does a phenomenal job up there.

It hardly feels like there's anything in here at all.

But of course, weight does not matter when it comes to trauma, does it? Intake Operator 87529 Processing Item 012-249-120 And we've got a styrofoam cup, like you used to see at all water coolers and coffee machines across the country before they figured out styrofoam was bad for the environment or people's health or corporate bottom lines or something.

I honestly don't know why they're phasing out Styrofoam cups, but now it's all about these paper ones that don't insulate any heat, or even worse, the impractical paper cones that you can't set down since they don't have a bottom.

Personal hatred of the current state of disposable cups aside, since I now have my own metal water bottle at my desk, the cup in this bag has been used.

I can tell that because someone's nails dug into the styrofoam a little and left behind dirt or, most likely considering this place, blood.

Bad touch, very funny.

You got three points for Styrofoam and then one point for guessing Swiss cheese.

That gives you nine points to Wade's seven.

All right.