Thursday, September 1, 2011

Don't we all

Dr. Grumpy: "Any major illnesses run in your family?"

Mr. Son: "Yeah, both my parents lived until they died."

9 comments:

  1. I plan on living, no I mean really living , until I die.

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  2. Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

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  3. that's a very common inherited illness.

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  4. So death is basically what killed them?

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  5. You can't argue with that.

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  6. Ha. I work in a doctors office (not neuro, worse, with sinus patients) and we have patients fill out a general health questionair when they come in. There is a section about family history and a place to list your parents age if alive and a seperate one if they are deceased. Typically, patients only fill out one box or the other, but a recent one filled in her parents age in the first box, and then wrote "don't know yet" in the other one.

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  7. Ginger, those forms are just begging for self expression.
    Under "Sex" I usually write:
    "Sure, your place or mine?"
    Being a geezer I often get away with it.

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  8. Anon 8:17: Perfect answer! Because if the form were correctly worded to ask for gender, you couldn't get away with that answer.

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  9. @Anon- Yes, I get lots of "jokes" written in as well, but they are never as funny as the unintentional errors patients write. My all time favorite was a man who wrote under "History of present illness" that he had had "multiple autopsies".

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So wadda you think?