The cancer center called today to confirm my MRI. The woman on the other end of the phone just wanted to ask me a few questions. Sometimes (just sometimes, is that too much to ask?) I wish everyone had the same sense of humor as me.
Here, my friends, is how the conversation went:
CC: “Do you have any kidney problems?”
Me: “Um, no, not at the present time. Unless you consider the time I ran home from the bar in the cold…then there was a problem. Oh, but I guess that would have been a bladder problem, uh…never mind.”
CC: Slight pause…“Good. Are you claustrophobic?”
Me: “No, I have no problem going into those tanning booths and closing the coffin-like lid.”
CC: “Ah…okay, you probably don’t want to tell us that since we’re a cancer center and we don’t recommend using tanning booths.”
Me: “Oops…sorry. I haven’t been tanning in a while, but, no worries, I’m not claustrophobic.”
CC: “Alright then, we’ll see you on Monday.”
Dammit, I couldn’t even get a little snicker out of her. I must be losing my touch. Thank God, my oncologist has a better sense of humor.
Two Lazy Dogs 
Oh I hate that .. and what’s worse is when you’re trying to get a little snicker, in person .. and the dumbfuck just stares blankly back at you when you try to tell a little ha ha. Fuckers.
Yeah…fuckers. Makes you want to ask, “Hellllooooo…is anybody home???”
Good Lord. Some people are so daft.
When she made the comment about the tanning booth, I would have said, “So I should be shoving blacklights up my pussy, either?”
Bwahahaha! Why, Maxine, are you sneaking around and peering into my bedroom windows?
*snort*
Kinky!
Those were perfectly good one liners – the woman obviously has no sense of humor and is probably a fear case. Everything probably makes her nervous and I’ll bet she spends a enormous amount of time worrying about the rip in the ozone layer.
WC
Why, thank you WC. I thought they were pretty good…but, obviously not everyone can make light of serious situations.
Some people just don’t have a sense of humor…or a sense of anything, obviously! You’re using humor to get through this is a great thing-too bad some don’t appreciate it at all! Kudos to your oncologist!
It is sad that some folks just don’t have a sense of humor. I have to make light of my situation…otherwise I’d be going nuts! My oncologist is great – he totally gets my sense of humor and jokes along with me.
How is Patch doing? Is he still on Cipro? I have a story to tell about that drug…I’ll email you.
Did you really!!! SAY THAT! OMG, how funny are you! You have that quick wit that I lack 🙂 Love it!
Ha! It depends on the day or my mood…sometimes I’ve got it, sometimes I don’t!
If you told her you had a metal plate in your head you would have gotten her attention! They get freaked out by all things metal, maybe you should go there wearing a lot of jewelry and zippers, then say she didn’t tell me I couldn’t wear metal! Ha Ha Ha! Someone is bound to laugh!
Oh, yeah, I should have told her about the metal pins in my legs…hahaha…not really. That probably would have sent her over the edge!
I cannot stand people with no sense of humor, if nothing else, when I get the blank stare or the long pause, that just eggs me on. I take it way beyond the initial chuckle and go for either the gross or seriously innapropriate. I like Maxine’s suggestion…I can only imagine the uncomfortable silence that would follow that…. 🙂
Haha…yes, I like Maxine’s suggestion also…but, hell, I don’t think I could be THAT snarky!!
You would think that you might have a better sense of humor BECAUSE it is a cancer center…life’s too short!
Yes…you would think. She probably deals with so many sad cases daily that she’s just lost her sense of humor.