Here's another exchange between me and my psychiatrist (years back) that I found funny:

I was in my psychiatrist's office. I don't know what had been said before, but almost out of the blue, he looked at me and with a teasing declaration said “BirdDancer, you’re old enough to be a grandmother!”

Boom! A look of shock covered my face, then a few seconds of silence as my mind whirled. “What?!?! A grandmother?!” I exclaimed. Then I thought about it briefly again and said, more calmly, “Well, I guess if I do the math, it’s certainly possible.”

Why did he say such a thing? Keep in mind that I don’t have children and never really thought about having children. Then with a burst of playful revenge I pointed straight at him (full arm out) and loudly said “Well, you’re old enough to be a great grandfather!”

“No!” he barked loudly.

“YES!” I retorted, pointing at him again with full are outstretched.

“That’s not possible”, he said in a crisp manner.

“What do you mean it’s not possible?” I asked in disbelief.

“My grandchildren are too young to have kids.”

“Well, I don’t even have kids!” I countered.

Then silence again broke and that seemed to end the conversation. Honestly, it was quite peculiar. The session ended and I went home, and obviously played the conversation in my head a few times. I wondered if maybe he did, too.

I saw this doctor again maybe two to three weeks later. When we both sat down we had **** eating grins on our faces. We went through the standard procedure of me describing my general mental health situation and him asking a question or two. Then with great mischief, I started it up again.

“Dr. R, I’m sorry about what I said last time. You don’t even seem old enough to be a grandfather, in my opinion.” He was about 68, at the time. I was 42.

“No…”, he said with a wink. “Actually, if you really do the math, I guess it is even possible for me to be a great great grandfather, if I was really young, and my kids were young…you know?”

I chuckled at that. “I guess that is true, Dr. R, but know that I’m still only old enough to be a grandmother.” Big Cheshire grin.