Anybody have a funny T story?

Agreed with others here -- thanks for this.

I may have a couple to share, too...

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Despite the fact my T has teenage kids, he is palpably technologically inept. This has caused numerous moments of amusement [for me, anyways -- maybe not for you].

To provide a few:

T got a new cell phone. I was quite proud, actually, as this cell phone actually had a keyboard (and he could use it!). In the midst of our session, however, the phone rang and T picked it up*. After informing the person on the other end he was in session and had to go, he said goodbye, hung up and then looked at me with this look of frustration. He complained that it was too quiet compared to his old phone and that he couldn't hear it as well. This led me to ask the following question:

"Have you tried raising the volume?"

He gave me a blank, confused stare for a moment before asking how you did that. After laughing a bit internally, I tried to instruct him on how you change the volume on one's phone. After a minute or so of him struggling with it, he eventually just passed it to me and said, "You do it!" So, you know, I hit a few buttons, raised the volume (it was low) and handed it back. His response at my display of basic technological skill?

"Oh." *Looks Amazed and Impressed"

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I don't know if your phone does this; however, when I text, if I go over the maximum allowed characters, it starts splitting it up into multiple messages. Incorrectly, I figured that everyone knew this, as I had no problem when my phone split messages up that I sent towards my friends.

Well, when T started texting (once again, I was quite amused/proud! When he told me, he kept saying..."I text now, so you can contact me that way..." as if it was this weird, foreign thing that phone companies had developed), I momentarily forget the above mentioned ineptness and sent him a -- fairly long -- text. The response (paraphrased, slightly):

"The phone isn't working. It's all broken up and I can't tell who sent this" (my name was in the last text).

I had to give T a lesson in the Wonders of Texting.

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Among others displays of technological ineptness. I am also amused whenever T uses any kind of swear word -- he once used "b**ch", when describing a character on South Park (as, in "who is already kind of a b**ch..." -- as it is just so out of his norm. Usually, though he is a genius at what he does (therapy), he comes off as kind of quiet and quirky -- serious expression, odd facial expressions, barely makes eye contact, etc (you get used to it after awhile...he really is brilliant and his personality works well for therapy; he just is...kind of a dork, really). So, to see him say that word, while making eye contact and cracking a smile, was highly amusing for me.

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When he mentioned he listened to Lonely Island. 'Nuff said.

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etc. Sadly, you really had to have "been there" to fully appreciate most if it.

*I think he forgets to turn it off. After hanging up, he turns it off.

I have nothing to contribute at the moment but.....I've enjoyed reading these - Great thread!

That made me lol inside.

Funny at the client's expense is really really bad. Still haven't gotten over it. And it wasn't very funny or clever on its own either. If the t was going to mock me, she at least could have been clever at it.

I've taken so many shots at my T, I can't complain if he takes one back once in a while. I don't know what we were talking about, but he goes, "...and you have NO wrinkles on your face!" I go, "i've told you the french say, a woman of a certain age must choose between her face and her rear. Obviously i've chosen my face." He goes, "you've chosen it MANY times!" I start sputtering, then i'm like, oh good one, wiseguy!

Obviously, my T has issues with tech. Your post reminded me when she and I got into the thing about the iPads being different weights (in an earlier post on this thread), she saw my home screen and said, "How on earth did you get that background?" I said, "I downloaded an app and through the app I downloaded..."

She interrupted me and said, "Never mind."

I said, "I can show you how sometime if you'd like."

She said, "Never mind."

I could tell she was peeved she didn't understand it. Made me grin.

There is nothing weird about my T at all. Sometimes I miss that.

My recent group facilitator mocked me, even when I pointed it out and asked him to stop. That was a factor in me choosing to leave.

I like weird. I have always been attracted to people who make me laugh. My H has always made me laugh and now my T makes me laugh and it's healing from the both of them.

Things that I find funny, my T often doesn't. A recent exchange when I pulled her chain just a little...

T: You have suffered so much in your life, SAWE. I just want to see it end.

SAWE (innocently): what - my life ?!?!?!

T: No! Your suffering!

I laughed before she did.