Anybody have a funny T story?

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?

Before I lost my insurance a couple of months ago, I was covered by a company that my T greatly dislikes and had been on his case already several times about me even though I'd only been seeing him a few months. I was in a session where we were talking about an arrangement for me to keep seeing him even though I'm not covered and I said, "Well, one bright spot in this for you is no more dealing with [insurance company] about me" and he flung his arms out to his sides and looked to the ceiling and rather dramatically proclaimed "HALLELUJAH, I hate those people!" Probably a you-had-to-be-there thing but it really cracked me up.

Chopin your first story especially made me laugh, your T sounds like she's a cute and funny person

Like the t is funny haha or funny as in odd?

T has a new room in the same suite of offices.
New to the room is a battery operated clock. The old clock was electric.
I've been distracted by the battery operated clocks tick..tick..tick..ticking away each second when the room gets quiet, usually when I am thinking.
So, early in the session, I guess when I first notice it, she gets up and takes it down and places it on the other side of the room, where I can't hear it.

So, recently, after she asked me, in reference to what we were talking about, "How does that strike you?".
I had to think.
The clock started tick..tick..ticking.
She got up to move it.
It slipped from her grasp, slid down the wall, bounced off the cabinet/table right beside me, and to the floor.
She made sure I was okay, picked up the clock and moved it to the other side of the room.
As she sat back down, she said quietly "I asked 'How does that strike you' and I nearly struck you!"
We both burst out laughing!

I decided to get used to the ticking and not have her move it.

Either one...mine's a bit of both!

The one I have seen dresses funny. As in oddly 70s.

My T isn't that funny. Oh, she tries, and she even claims that she "adds humor" to her practice. I am the one who gets the laughs.

my t said "man*****" once in the context of our conversation, and it made me laugh so much. she says "holla" sometimes too. hahaha

it's interesting that you say "the one I pay."

-ill preface this with... It was funny to me... No guarentee here!
The other day as I was preparing to leave session I asked T about a 90 minute session she said "no, insurance companies don't usually pay for 90 minute sessions." I flippantly said , " I' ll pay you ", she stopped what she was doing and looked up at me with wide eyes mouth dropped open and said " what did you say?" ... I' ll pay the difference for the extra 40 minutes... Hmm, she says and we carry on... It dawned on me later she must have thought I propositioned her .... As in "O, i'll pay you darlin' dont you worry your pretty little head off" ... LMAO

You should sing that 70's porn music in your head as you enter the office! Bowmp chick a wa wa ...lol

Okay, not sure if this is funny, but in considering our family I have to laugh (or cry?)
Last time I was paying my copay to my therapist, she made the comment jokingly that my family's therapy sessions are keeping the business afloat.
I am guessing that our 2-3 visits a week made for a good Christmas party!
Thank goodness for great insurance benefits-
bluemountains

I did not know the 70s had Its own porn music.

My T once said something was "tight," and then stopped to check: "That means 'good,' right?" Heh. I assured him he was down with the lingo LOL.

My T was trying to explain the neuroscience behind needing to discuss trauma aloud to establish new neural pathways between the parts of the brain. He was making all these big gestures around his head. He suddenly stopped and said, "I look like a total dork doing this with my hands, don't I?" I just had to laugh and nod.

This makes me think of that ODB song, "Hey dirty baby I got ya money, don't ya worry, I say hey, baby I got ya money." LMAOOOO

Love it! Bow chicka bow bow chicka bow bow...

I think if mine said this...I'd just have to choke her.

Since my T is on Friday afternoon it's been a good time to decompress from the week. After one rough time, I came in, sat down, and took some deep breaths to clear my head. I then looked at my T, said "Safe!" and moved my arms like an umpire at a baseball game. He laughed about it for quite a few minutes.

Farraige- LOVE THIS! What a simple way to communicate to T just what you need in a funny way...

You didn't laugh?

My T is a smart woman, but her mind doesn't work fast enough to make jokes. She laughs at my jokes though.

In all the time I've known her, I remember only one funny thing she has ever said.

I pointed out her dog was eating out of a bowl marked "Cat". "That's OK, he can't read."

I wouldn't want my T to be funnier than me, or funny at my expense.

Okay, here's a few more:

I "interviewed" T about some of her philosophies, boundaries, etc. when I was still deciding whether to open up or not:
C: What do you consider your area of expertise?
T: Chocolate.

T and I talked about my former b***h of a boss a lot before said boss retired. Once my new boss took over, I quickly learned he was a great guy. So in a conversation about the difference between the two: "It sounds like your work life is really changing for the better. E is a real encourager. B was, well...she was, well...actually, we know exactly what she was...(then looked around room like this: )."

I made her throw back her head and laugh when I told her that my new boss wanted to give her his regards, then said, "I'm still trying to figure out if that's good or bad."

This is one of those that you probably had to be there, but...one day I had an appointment scheduled, I got a call from T's receptionist asking if I could come in at 3:00 instead of noon because T was sick and wanted to try to get herself together to come in. I said sure. So when I got there, I asked her if she was okay. (Now imagine this entire diatribe said very quickly). She said, "My stomach's been hurting and I have some other symptoms and I figured they were chemo related, so I called my oncologist. He told me it was too far removed from my last chemo to be related. He told me, 'You know you could actually just be sick, right?'" Well, this morning, I took my medicine for my tachycardia and got choked on it and when I coughed, it flew across my bedroom and I looked and looked and looked and couldn't find it, so I took another one. Then I ate my cereal and I realized the pill could have landed in the cereal and I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, if I took a double dose of the pill that slows my heart down, my heart might stop!' So I started to panic and called my H who told me to calm down. None of it mattered, because I ended up throwing up anyway. My God, I really have diarrhea of the mouth today, so I guess I have it coming out both ends!" She laughed, and I know I was looking at her like this: . At this point, I said, "Did you OD on caffeine before you came in?" She laughed. I said I was going to ask her some questions and she said, "Oh this will be fun, I feel like I'm on a game show...1842? Napoleon? No, that is incorrect!" I'm still looking at her like this: . I thought she had lost her damn mind, but now I chalk it up to her being sick.

My T is weird, but she makes up for it by being really, really good!

omg!! I am and boy do I ever need to laugh. Oh, gosh thank you for this! Holy Toledo!!!

ROTL ROTL That is freakin' hilarious.

I might have to borrow this answer occasionally.

Anne

I probably need to start a new thread: "Really smart T stories" thread because I probably made my T look like an idiot, but she's not. She's actually extremely intelligent and very caring and loving. She's by far the best of the 3 T's I've seen!! I love it when she's goofy, because I tend to be the "straight (wo)man" with a dry sense of humor so we play off each other.

Although I've got one more...

Last session, when I came in, T asked me about my kidney stone. I assured her I was in no pain, then she blurted out, "Does it burn when you pee?" I said no. The session before, she told me the story of when her H had one, so I'll blend that story with what she told me this time. "My H had his kidney stone when we were on vacation. He woke me up moaning and groaning. I kept asking him if he was okay and he would say he was fine. Up and down to the bathroom moaning and groaning, telling me he was fine. I got fed up and said, 'We're on vacation for pete's sake, so you need to either let me take you to the hospital or just shut the hell up.' That's when he fainted."

Needless to say, that's when they went to the hospital.

So after they returned from vacation, he passed the stone and put it in an empty pill bottle. He took their daughter along on the ride to the doctor's office to give them the stone for them to analyze. "My daughter wasn't ADHD, but she was a busy child. She grabbed the bottle, opened it and said, 'Daddy what's this? Oh, it's a rock.' and proceeded to throw it out the window. H had to call the doctor's office to say, 'Never mind.'"

Thanks for this!
I have some funny Group therapy stories, but seems that I could not do the the stories justice, and what happens in group stay's in group.

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