Hey, just wanted to pass on my experience, as the posts here really helped me.

Yesterday I took a urine test at Quest Diagnostics in Santa Monica. For well over a decade I've been employed as an engineer. Suddenly my group was outsourced to another company, and we were given a very short time to take a urine test before our official start date. Naturally I freaked. I'm not exactly a heavy toker, but I had just smoked plenty the week before. My stress level was through the roof.

I talked to a friend who suggested I go to a local head shop and pick up some synthetic urine. All they had was Quick Fix (QF 5.7), so I got that. My friend said, "don't worry man, I've gone to drug screenings high". Well I definitely wasn't going to push it.

About an hour before the test I heated the bottle in a pan of hot water to get it nice and warm, and then attached the heater pad with rubber bands to keep it warm for the next half hour. The instructions said look for the green dot to guage the temperature. I saw a bunch of colors on the temperature strip, but dammit I'm red-green color-blind! So I got a digital thermometer from the medicine cabinet and stuck it in there. It was 98.1F. OK, I was ready. I stuffed the little bottle in my shorts, and trucked down to the clinic.

At Quest things went pretty smoothly. I was the only customer. In the bathroom the lady asked me to empty my pockets and she locked my stuff in a box. She asked me to wash my hands and then gave me the cup. By this time the little bottle was close to falling out of my shorts, so I was glad when I could finally shut and lock the door. I could hear the ladies yapping outside, and all seemed cool. Still paranoid, I looked around for hidden cameras, but figured I better hurry up. I got the bottle out and squirted the stuff in there, somewhat stupidly, as it made a bubbly suction noise loud enough for them to hear outside. I poured the rest in slowly.

Afterwards the lady took the cup and immediately checked off the "Yes" box on "Is the temperature between 90 and 100 degrees F?" All my paranoia about the temperature was for nothing! She didn't even test the temp.

So that's it. Now I'm waiting. Man I hope things work out...