Things Heard At The Doctor's Office

I was at the doctor's yesterday for Katelyn's three month check up.  There was an interesting conversation that occurred in the waiting room, but I'm saving that one for the end of the post.  Let's fast forward to when I was waiting in the exam room first.

I heard the receptionist bring a woman down the hall to the scale (which sits right outside the exam room door).  I recognized the woman's voice as being the person who signed in right after me.  She was roughly my age and slightly bigger than me.  As the receptionist was clinking the little weights on the scale, I heard the woman say, "I know exactly what I weigh and I would appreciate it if neither you nor Dr.A would mention the amount in front of my husband because he doesn't know my weight".

I had to cover my mouth and stifle a giggle.  I was so tempted to open the door and say to her, "Sweetheart, I know us fat ladies have to stick together, but I'm gonna hazard a guess here that if your husband saw the actual poundage, it's not as though he would fall off his chair and scream, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU WERE FAT!?!?".  Alas, I kept the door and my mouth closed.

Let's rewind back out to the waiting room.  There was an elderly couple sitting to my left (henceforth referred to as Left) and an elderly couple to my right (henceforth referred to as Right).  Both couples were oohing and aahing over Katelyn and various conversations ensued.  At one point, Right Couple proceeded to tell me about the stroke Right Man had twelve years ago and all the hard work involved in the recovery (you wouldn't have known it by looking at him).  They talked about how he had been completely paralyzed down the right side of his body, couldn't speak, eat and so on.  Shortly after that, Right Woman was called back, but Right Man stayed in the waiting room.  Things got quiet for a few moments, until Left Woman piped up and the following conversation took place between Left Woman and Right Man with me sitting in the middle of the exchange:

Left Woman: Have you ever been to Paris?

Right Man: Yes, down my right side.

Left Woman: How long ago was that?

Right Man: About twelve years ago.

Left Woman: I've never been, but I bet it's beautiful.  Did you enjoy it?

It took every ounce of strength I could muster to not burst out laughing.  Right Man must have been thinking, "WTF is wrong with this woman?".  It was at that point that Katelyn started to shriek a little, so the attention turned back to her and the Paris/paralyzed conversation was over.

I cannot WAIT until Mike and I start to lose our hearing :-)