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| No. 90 | 
Sep 08, 2004, 08:08 PM
This happened little over a year ago. 1 day after I was send home with my newborn I had difficulty breastfeeding my baby, so I paged my OB/GYN . Shortly I received a call back displayed as "U of P" on my caller id. I picked up the phone assuming this was my doctor calling from the hospital. The lady on the phone said she received my message and was asking how she can help me. I told her "I am having firmness in my breasts and my baby refusing to breastfeed. What should I do?" After a long pause, she said "I don't know anything about that!"
Turns out she was calling from University of Phoenix online program, because I send her an email few days before that asking about their distance learning program. How embarrassing!!!!!!!
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Sep 08, 2004, 08:13 PM
Originally Posted by santhony44 I can't say I regretted this one, but it was definitely a case of my mouth operating ahead of my brain.
Many years ago I worked in a burn unit that was having MRSA problems. The infection control nurse cultured everyone and guess who was the culprit? One of the residents. Anyway, along with the MRSA we had a run of patients who didn't do well for a variety of reasons. This resident was sort of a smart *** and not one of my favorites. We also had a nurse who was one of those who was defnitely out to get her MD. She was a cute girl but related to most of the docs, who were mostly male, with being flirtatious, etc etc, just annoyed me no end.
I was in the nurses' lounge one day when this resident and this nurse came in. They were carrying on a conversation- she was complimenting him on his shirt, a chamois cloth thing as I recall. She said "that looks like a hunting shirt, do you like to hunt?" He started to say "No, I don't like going out in the woods and killing things...." and before he could go any farther, my mouth opened and out came:"No, he prefers doing it in the comfort and safety of the hospital!" I promise, it just bypassed my filtering mechanism altogether, I knew I was thinking it the same time they did! They both just stared at me with their mouths hanging open.
That was great!!!  | | No. 92 |
Sep 09, 2004, 10:12 AM
Originally Posted by nightngale1998 That post was so funny gale!
I always laugh when I say the saying that a long time ago friend would say for: You are such a smart fellow, and say "You are such a fart smeller"... lol... it still makes me chuckle.
LOL... my dad used to say this! He died 3 years ago, thanks for making me smile and remember!
~MJ
| | No. 93 |
Sep 09, 2004, 10:25 AM
"Given the time of the morning, the guy placing his order asked if I wanted that picture with or without clothes!"
Took me a minute...but ILMBO!!!
Thanks!
~MJ
| | No. 94 |
Sep 09, 2004, 11:58 AM
Originally Posted by Lenap This happened little over a year ago. 1 day after I was send home with my newborn I had difficulty breastfeeding my baby, so I paged my OB/GYN . Shortly I received a call back displayed as "U of P" on my caller id. I picked up the phone assuming this was my doctor calling from the hospital. The lady on the phone said she received my message and was asking how she can help me. I told her "I am having firmness in my breasts and my baby refusing to breastfeed. What should I do?" After a long pause, she said "I don't know anything about that!"
Turns out she was calling from University of Phoenix online program, because I send her an email few days before that asking about their distance learning program. How embarrassing!!!!!!!
Embarrassing for you, but really hilarious! Sounds like my story when I called the lumber company wanting to ask if they had tarpaper but instead blurted out toilet paper.  The guy on the other end would not let me off the phone. He laughed and teased and then he laughed and teased some more. I did not want to go there to pick up the tarpaper, but I needed it, so I did go.  | | No. 95 |
Sep 27, 2004, 09:24 PM
An elderly patient told her aide,
"I can tell by your eyes you were never married."
| | No. 96 |
Sep 27, 2004, 09:38 PM
My DH and I were reminiscing tonight (it's our anniversary) and a particularly embarrassing moment from our early years together came up in the conversation:
Bill was working at a local car dealership back then, and I often called him on his lunch break to whisper 'sweet nothings' and suggest......well.....new things we might try later that evening. So this one day I called, and when he came on the phone I started with "Hi, you sexy thang!" and proceeded to tell him, in excruciating detail, what I had planned for us that night. When I finally finished, there was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, then a burst of laughter as he answered, "Well, what you've told me is VERY interesting, and I'd love to take you up on that offer.....but I think you may want to let your husband in on it first!"
Turned out that the man who'd answered the phone was also named Bill, and his voice sounded so much like MY Bill's that I'd mistaken him for my DH!! Talk about embarrassed!! And it didn't help that the guy kept teasing me about it for months afterward.......whenever a call for Bill was announced over the loudspeaker, he'd answer the phone and go "Hey, you sexy thang!" | | No. 97 |
Sep 28, 2004, 12:11 AM
Originally Posted by santhony44 I can't say I regretted this one, but it was definitely a case of my mouth operating ahead of my brain.
Many years ago I worked in a burn unit that was having MRSA problems. The infection control nurse cultured everyone and guess who was the culprit? One of the residents. Anyway, along with the MRSA we had a run of patients who didn't do well for a variety of reasons. This resident was sort of a smart *** and not one of my favorites. We also had a nurse who was one of those who was defnitely out to get her MD. She was a cute girl but related to most of the docs, who were mostly male, with being flirtatious, etc etc, just annoyed me no end.
I was in the nurses' lounge one day when this resident and this nurse came in. They were carrying on a conversation- she was complimenting him on his shirt, a chamois cloth thing as I recall. She said "that looks like a hunting shirt, do you like to hunt?" He started to say "No, I don't like going out in the woods and killing things...." and before he could go any farther, my mouth opened and out came:"No, he prefers doing it in the comfort and safety of the hospital!" I promise, it just bypassed my filtering mechanism altogether, I knew I was thinking it the same time they did! They both just stared at me with their mouths hanging open.
OMG....I think I just about peed myself!!!  | | No. 98 |
Sep 28, 2004, 12:14 AM
Originally Posted by AmethystVeralyn An elderly patient told her aide,
"I can tell by your eyes you were never married."
I don't get it...what am I missing???
| | No. 99 |
Sep 28, 2004, 12:27 AM
Originally Posted by nightngale1998 Recently, while working a shift in LTC, a resident asked me to guess her age. Well... Honestly, she looked 90 and had the personality of an angel. She bubbled around the facility in a walker with her rotund body.
I, in my "wisdom" replyed quickly "75"! Her face dropped, she told me she was 69 and soon to be 70 !!!
This one CRACKS me up! |
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