You may have surmised from any previous postings that ER nurses think we know it all. Well, that's just because we do. Actually it might be a nurse thing....or maybe just a female thing? I think it's because you're only new in the ER for about six months, and then you've either a)run screaming out the back ambulance doors, never to return, or b)figured this shit out.
Anyway, since I like to tell amusing tales mocking other people, I thought it would be good to add one about myself.
(a few days ago)
Me (picks up cell phone and hears this message from my aunt, Shirley Bu) "Hi Cheri! I meant to say Carey in my blue tooth and I said Cheri! Oh well, I love you!"
Me (to husband): "This is the strangest message EVER. Aunt Bu said something about saying my name into a tooth."
Husband (who is watching football) "mmm....hmmmm."
Me: (worriedly) "This message doesn't make ANY SENSE. Why would she be talking into her teeth? What if she has early Alzheimer's? Some people get it in their forties! Who's going to take care of her? Do you think we should clean out a guest room?
Husband (sighs, gives up on game for a moment) "What did she say?"
Me: "She said something about SAYING MY NAME INTO A TOOTH and then her PHONE CALLED ME!"
Husband (laughing): "Was she drinking?"
Me (aggravated) "NO, she DOESN'T DRINK. I wish she WAS. I know it's early Alzheimer's! This is terrible!"
Husband (patiently, as he is the patient one) "What EXACTLY did she say?"
Me: "She SAID 'Hi Cheri I said Carey into my BLUE TOOTH And it called you!"
Husband begins laughing.
Me: (irritably) What? This ISN'T FUNNY!
Husband: BLUE TOOTH. That's that thing you talk into when you have the phone in your ear, you know like Celia has?
Me; (sheepishly) "ohhhhhhhh."
Duh-uh-uh. Well, now I know the name of those things I hate. I always just called it "that stupid thing Celia puts in her ear" because I hate them. People are wearing them and they just start talking, so you think they're talking to YOU, and you respond- and then feel very foolish and aggravated when you realize they weren't talking to you AT ALL but to some disembodied person.
Whatever happened to phones on the wall?
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Hahaha, I read it to Faith and she agrees about Blue Tooth's - she said what she thought was a heart-to-heart conversation with her Mom only to find out she was responding to her phone.
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