I wish this had happened ...
in time for the cringe QOTW.

My mother slipped in the shower and fractured her L4 vertebra. Two weeks out from Christmas.

The inconsiderate cow.

Anyway, I have recently spent many frantic hours in our nearest A&E trying to amuse two little girls, aged 5 and 2, for fuck knows how long.

They were well entertained by an impromptu blow-up latex glove puppet show for a bit, much to the amusement of my fellow waiting room internees.

Now this particular hospital happens to be the war veterans hospital. So the moment all parents dread was just around the corner.

You know the one. The moment when an amputee comes within the range of your child's curious gaze. My first born child reacted with bemused but silent interest in the elderly (WW2?) veteran who sat close-by. He had lost his left arm just below the elbow.

The nurse called us in to talk about my Mum.

I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Just as we were mustering ourselves, 5yo politely asks the elderly amputee "Excuse me, but what happened to your arm?"

CRINGE!!!

He gave this beetroot faced poster a wry grin and beckoned 5yo girl closer. He then said in a low voice.

"I was picking my nose."

The look of utter horror on my wee one's face was just magic.

I then had to talk to a nurse about my mother's need for back surgery whilst trying not to wee myself from suppressed giggles.
(Que?, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 7:17, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I like this.
Muchly.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 7:40, Reply)

haha!
awesome vet :D Nice story!
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 8:30, Reply)