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The following is a story from my past in which I was able to find humor in my otherwise frustrating struggle with PD: The movie, "SPEED", was showing at a nearby theater one evening and I debated on taking Sinemet before going. I decided that tremoring in a dark movie theater or afterwards would not be a problem so off I went to the show. The movie was fast-paced and between my adenaline rush and the lack of dopamine in my system, I was tremoring quite a bit as the movie concluded. On the way out, I stopped off at the Men's Room.............. While standing at the urinal, I discovered that I was unable to grab my zipper and the concentrated effort was causing my hand to actively shake and jerk. With people waiting behind me and this hand action going on, I suddenly wondered how this might look to others, a grown man standing at a public urinal with his right hand at crotch level in a jerking motion. *Footnote: Men do not typically converse or look left-or-right while utilizing this type of bathroom fixture (Guys, you knew this....ladies, consider this a lesson in Men's Toilet Behavior) Realizing that an explanation of any kind would have to encompass a discussion of PD symptoms and trying to imagine what this must look like to people waiting behind me, I started laughing. Then, the absurdity of the whole situation hit me. A grown man standing at a public urinal, his hand at crotch level jerking back and forth and laughing, proved to be too much for me. I turned and left and wonder to this date (though I'm not concerned) what the others might have thought. I laughed all the way home...I'd finally found something to truly laugh at in regards to this horrid disease. I hope this post brought you a smile...I didn't intened to offend anyone. Rather, I hope I educated others without PD or those with early-symptoms of the kinds of predicaments that can occur in one young person's (37, that's still young, huh?) life. Thanks for listening. David "waiting on mid-summer palidotomy" Boots