They’re Too Penny Wise
MEDICAL OFFICE, NORTH CAROLINA, PATIENTS, SILLY, TEENAGERS, USA | HEALTHY | DECEMBER 29, 2018
(I am fifteen and skinny, and I keep losing weight, so I have to go to the doctor to be weighed once a month to prove I don’t have an eating disorder and that my ADD medication isn’t screwing up my metabolism. I suspect it IS the medication, but I really don’t want to be taken off it because it helps me enormously, so one day, I get the bright idea to hide sacks of pennies in my clothes to make myself heavier.)
Nurse: “Okay, just take off your jacket and shoes, and step onto the scale, please.”
(When I bend down to take off my shoes, one of the sacks of pennies falls out of my pant leg.)
Nurse: “Oh, what’s that?”
Me: “Um… pennies… because I’m going to the bank later. To turn them in. Yeah.”
Nurse: *still friendly but clearly not buying my bulls*** at all* “Riiight. Got any more?”
(Fortunately, my doctor just laughed and told me not to do it again. A week or so later, my dad went to the same doctor. While weighing him, the nurse told him to take his hand off the wall. My dad jokingly asked if she thought he was trying to cheat, and she told him the funny story of the girl who came in with her clothes full of pennies.)
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