About 6.5 years ago, Shelly and I were doing the "getting ready to make a baby" shtick, and we toured the babymaking ward of our local hospital to see all the rooms and the check-in procedure and all the important stuff that you'll forget the minute your wife goes into labor.
While checking out the ward, the nurse remarked that things that day were pretty quiet, and that was because the moon wasn't full. Once there was a full moon, you could guarantee that the place would be hopping and that doctors and nurses and relatives would be all over the place. Shelly and I just gave each other the eye-rolling look and went on with the tour.
After getting home, I happened by the wall-calendar in the kitchen. It's one of those calendars with little moon-phases printed in the corner of the days.
And guess what was happening that very day.
Yep, full moon. Couldn't have been more ironic if we'd planned it in advance.
And I'm sure those nurses are working just like the cops in the comic strip. If they have a busy day with lots of babies and running around, then it must be a full moon. Never mind that it's a pretty trivial process to check for a full moon, even if you're working indoors. They just keep the meme alive out of sheer intellectual inertia.
And it's just one of those things that makes no damn sense on its face, like "don't buy a red car because they get in more accidents". The fact that insurance companies charge more money for the model of the car but not the color debunks that rumor more effectively than anything. Ditto for crime and babies. If crime and births increase during full moons, then why don't police departments and hospitals staff up on those days?
It's because it doesn't. Werewolves aren't real. Live with it.
