A delicious delicacy of soft chocolate and mint euphoria. Immensely addictive and can be eaten in brobdingnagian quantities. Can cause abhorrent stomach aches and repulsive diarrhea. The gastrointestinal torment will feel lingering and broil.
I ate a package of York Peppermint Patties yesterday and my rectum is still in recovery. It was worth every agonizing momment though.
1) Gets scapegoated and blamed for a family's problems
2) Has emotional problems that are not a mental illness, but a normal response to the stress of dealing with an unhealthy family in denial
3) Blows the whistle on a dysfunctional family's problems
Phrase originated because family therapists recognized that the child "identified" as the patient is not necessarily the one who is sick.
1) John is dropping out of school and doing drugs and his parents want him institutionalized, but it turns out his mother is an abusive alcoholic and his father is chronically absent. John is the identified patient.
2) Becky is extremely depressed and fearful. She accuses her father, correctly, of molestation, but the parents deny it and accuse Becky of being sick for reasons that have nothing to do with them. Becky is the identified patient.
The ledge at a window or counter of a booth where customers (or similar) are separated by a partial wall from cashiers (or similar). It is a place where objects (such as money or credits cards) can be placed on while receiving service.
Patience tables are generally found in places including banks, pharmacies, ticket booths, and snack bars.
The name "patience table" is given because people must wait patiently behind them.
Customers inside the bank place their checks and documents on a patience table while the tellers do their duties.
When getting your medicine refilled at the phamacy, you place your prescription on the patience table.
There is a patience table at the entrance to the theater where tickets are sold.
The vendor places the beverages on the patience table for the customer to pick up after they are purchased.
The character that the My Chemical Romance album The Black Parade is centered around. He is battling a disease and when he dies, death comes to him in the form of a parade of people in black marching band outfits. This concept is based off of Gerard Way's belief that death comes to you in the form of your fondest memory.