While at work today, I was happily hidden while one of my friends posed a question to a visiting family member.
"Where is Mr So & So?" asks the visitor.
"Oh, he's in room 209, you must be his brother, you look just like him", says my friend the nurse.
"Uhm... I'm his son" says the visitor. ~~~~~~
My friends face turned as red as a tomato ready to bust it's juices with the offending question just floating in mid air. It didn't help when her very nice coworker (me) scolds her on the relation comparison factor... "listen missy, you are not to concern yourself with the dynamics of who's who in the zoo, what you want to establish is the fact that they might be related, because they do have a similarity in features...."
I further aided my friend with a quick step by step technique as to how to go about finding out relationship factors with the unknowing visitors that stop by. This example was followed by notes, and a quiz at the end of the inservice. It goes as follows:
OH (raise eyebrows)......
(direct gaze to visitor) are you related?
(pause, wait for answer).
I told her that this method is a sure fire way of keeping her feet on the floor at all times, and not unknowingly stuffed in her mouth.
We did have a really good laugh... considering that she had just compared an 81 year old guy to a 35ish old looking fellow. Oh well, she's blond, she has an excuse.
1 comment:
People always used to think my mom was my sister....but she's only 18 years older than me. I'd totally freak out if someone compared me with someone fifty years my senior!
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