Friday, October 14, 2005

Small Piece of Advice

If your mom ever goes into the hospital, after smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for forty years, and she tells you a story about the nurse and how the nurse used a stethoscope on her chest to listen to her lungs, DON'T ask your mother if the nurse could her the alveoli bursting. Your mom won't think that it's funny.

4 comments:

Chris said...

Mom's are like that - NO sense of humour at all.

It's something that happens during labour and delivery.

Kate said...

Although, your brother might think it's funny and get shushed by your sister.

Usually she's got a sense of humor. I do tend to go a bit far sometimes though.

Dean said...

It would have been *really* crass if you'd started making popping sounds with your lips. "POP - like that".

Kate said...

My mom thought that was really funny, thanks.