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Overheard in a HOSPITAL, you know where they have lives in their hands.
August 9th, 2008
The Husband does geeky things to hospital computers when he is not at school or parenting or husbanding or doing church things. We are all (knock on wood) fine. Just wanted to explain why he was in a hospital. Oh, and we here at thehuckablog are well aware that all nurses are not nitwits…but these were. Explanation over, post continued…..NOW!
Nurse 1: Well, I just got off the phone with my Daddy, I was so worried.
Nurse 2: Why? Is everything okay?
Nurse 1: I heard on the radio that Russia had invaded Georgia! My Daddy lives in Atlanta, so I had to find out if he was okay.
Nurse 2: Wow! Was he okay? Was there a terrorist attack or something?
Nurse 1: Yeah it turns out there is a country in Africa or somewhere named Georgia, and that is who was attacked.
Nurse 2: Oh. That is good news.
Filed under stupidity |10 Responses to “Overheard in a HOSPITAL, you know where they have lives in their hands.”
You can’t believe how hard it was for me not to fall on the floor laughing when I overheard this conversation.
Seriously.
It really happened.
I wonder of stupid girl from Model UN is now a nurse…
Well, obviously they were never educated in geography or political science. These two, if RNs, are obviously not mentally challenged, just incredibly ignorant. I sure hope neither one is blonde as that’s one more blonde joke we do NOT need launched into cyberspace! (Hey, no “what do you have against blondes” remarks, I’m blonde [albeit more bottled than natural these days].)
MMIL…not sure if you thought I was calling the nurses stupid, but to clarify…
When Hey You and I were in college, there was a really dumb girl (she was dirty blonde…though that has nothing to do with the story) in our Model United Nations course who never seemed to grasp any form of geography or political science or life for that matter.
A few days after 9/11 (the original back in 2001), she said…and I quote…”Who is that Taliban guy, anyway?”
And on another occasion, she was unsuccessful in locating the United States on a world map.
She was an education major at the time, though who knows whatever happened to her. Hey You and I simply called her “Stupid Girl” I think.
I can’t poke fun, as I was nearly that ignorant in world geography at a young age. I’m doing a little better now, but if I don’t start devoting more time for reading current events, I’ll be behind again.
But to illustrate…I graduated high school in 1971, I immediately began college at UK and remember being mortified when a friend said something about the concert for Bangladesh and I didn’t know what she was talking about, thinking Bangladesh was a group.
A little history lesson for anybody that needs it, Bangladesh was not a country at the time, but a region of Pakistan. It had suffered a cyclone and political strife during the past several years when in 1972 George Harrison thought it a good idea to organize a benefit to raise money for the suffering people of the area.
I’m certain my new found “intellectual hippy” friends got a big laugh at the expense of my ignorance. But I got the last laugh as I got the best thing to ever come out of the group….my husband.
Okay, I must admit here that world politics/geography weren’t always my best either. My 4th grade teacher told our class that Iraq and Iran were the same country, but it was just pronounced differently in other parts of the world. I believed that garbage until midway through my freshman year in college.
But, I have to say that even if I still though Iraq and Iran were the same, at least I could point to the United States on a world map.
Plus, a few days after 9/11, you would have had to have lived in complete isolation from all media/people to not know about the Taliban. Seriously…even Nickelodeon and MTV had 9/11-related information/programming.
I told this story to our district’s elementary teachers in a meeting I was leading yesterday and every single one of them gasped in horror and then laughed hysterically. At least I know that MY teachers aren’t ignorant!!
ShoeShe…well, maybe I thought it a little (that you were calling them stupid), but my response was more an indictment of these two women for opening their mouths and showing their ignorance!!
Just think, this genius is responsible for your healthcare too! Maybe they were just a ward clerk?
i just snorted really loudly.
Now wait a minute!!! I was once a ward clerk….oh wait, Concert for Bangladesh….uh,never mind.