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I must be like a lot of people who never think of good comeback lines until well after the fact. And yet, I know one when I see one.

The following anecdote is from a favorite story of mine about psychiatrist, R.D. Laing. It's not my personal experience but it contains a classic comeback line....

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As the story goes...

R.D. Laing was invited to tour the wing of a new psychiatric hospital. During the tour, his tour guides (four fellow psychiatrists) drew his attention to a window in a door. Behind the window was a young woman who had been stripped naked and was rocking within the confines of her padded room. According to the tour guides, she'd not spoken to anyone in the four months since she'd been placed in the room.

"Can you think of anything that might help her?" the tour guides inquired of Laing.

Laing promptly stripped himself naked, entered the room and began rocking in time to the young woman. Within 20 minutes she was speaking with him.

Laing is reputed to have later quipped in a thick Scottish brogue ...

"I can't believe none of you thought of that."


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