This might not make anybody laugh, but my T made me laugh my @ss off last session. She was trying to set up my next couple of appointments since the receptionist had left for the day. She had her iPad and was muttering at it as usual. I asked her if she was a Luddite and she looked up and said, "What's a...what?" I told her a Luddite is someone who doesn't like technology. She said, "I like technology okay, it just doesn't like me. I can't even get a copy machine to work right. In fact, when my H and I were young and poor, he had an old Volvo that I was unable to crank. Anybody could get in the car and crank it except me. Well, I made the mistake of driving it to the mall. Of course when I was leaving, I couldn't get it to crank. This was before cell phones, so I had to go back inside the mall to call my H and tell him to come get me. He told me he wasn't going to come get me and to go back out to the car. He said to get it to crank that I needed to keep the car door open, put my left foot outside of the car, my right foot on the gas and bounce up and down in the seat. To this day, I think he told me that just to mess with me." I said, "You actually did it, didn't you?" She said yes, she was out in the parking lot doing this and people were passing by and looking at her funny...and actually demonstrated the action to me...twice. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud at her at this point. I said, "Mm hmm...and that's when the men in the white coats came and took you away right?" I said, "It didn't work either, did it?" She said of course not. She said her neighbor across the street at the time actually took up a collection in their neighborhood so that T and her H could either buy a new car or build a garage to put the Volvo in because the neighbors were embarrassed of the car. She said, "I was so mad I took the damn money." By this time, I couldn't help laughing.
At that point, I was going to fix her bracelet. She decided to sit next to me and watch me do it. She has a pillow on her loveseat and I had it next to me with my notes and my iPad on top of it. Before I could move it, T picked up the pillow with my stuff on it and my iPad flew across the room. I said, "Freudian slip?" She said, "Your iPad is heavy...I didn't think it would be heavy!!" I said, "It's the same thing you've got." She said, "Yours is skinnier than mine, so I thought it would be lighter. It's an iPad 2 right?" I said, "No, it's not. It's the same thing you have." She got up and picked up the papers and iPad, then went and got her iPad and held one in each hand. She looked up sheepishly and admitted they weighed the same. I said, "Your case is bigger, not your iPad. They only come in one size. Just because mine is 16 gig and yours is 32 doesn't mean yours is bigger." At that point, she cracked up.
So anybody else got any funny stories to share?
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