More goofy T stories

As many of you know, my T is a goofball. Something she did last session entered my mind and made me laugh.

I entered her office and she came in behind me and shut the door. As she did, she carefully hung the "In Session" door sign on the inside of the door. The inside. Where we could see it. She turned to look at me and saw me looking at the sign, then at her. I said, "I know we're in session, you know we're in session. Don't people on the outside need to know we're in session?" She calmly walked back over to the door, took the sign, opened the door, and hung it outside. She said, "If it's not on the door, people will knock and try to come in." I finally caught her when she couldn't think of a comment or a way to play it off. She knew that one was dumb...and it made me happy!

I told her about a weird dream I had and it made her laugh so hard she snorted, which embarrassed her. I had fun with that one, too. The entirety of the dream was this:

I was in the hallway at work. My 6'6" tall, goofy-looking boss came out of his office with a book on his head. He turned to look at me and told me to remember to stand tall.

Made me laugh my @$$ off too!

- that is such a funny dream - I wonder whether you actually laughed in your dream.

Shame your T couldn't laugh at herself with the sign thing though Soup

I didn't, but I laughed when I woke up. My boss looks like a monster-sized Stephen King, so imagine that one...LOL!

Normally she does laugh at herself and/or plays silly stuff off, but this time she was completely caught off guard. She acted more like "duh" this time.

I enjoy my T's mistakes too. And like your T, my T doesn't seem to have any good way to deal with being caught out. Maybe they enjoy their own perfection a bit too much!

Last time I got caught out, I said, "Oops! That wasn't very clever, was it?" And T thinks I'm the one of obsesses about being right.

thanks for those goofy moments ... they made me smile

I'm happy to see that you got a kick out of your T's mistake.

Whenever I have an appt after 4pm my T is in silly mood. I think one of the lessons I'm trying to learn from her (although it wasn't planned) is to laugh and enjoy it.

Yesterday I brought my service dog to session. He's a 5lb yorkie. So I decided to show T one of his tasks he could do, which is finding my medication and bringing it to me. I handed him my dog and told him not to let him see me hiding the medication. So T turned around in his rolley chair and began telling my dog to close his eyes and not cheat. Then he was like I guess your not going to close your eyes huh? It was pretty hilarious to see him talking to my yorkie.

I take absolutely no pleasure in seeing other people embarrassed - especially when there is no need to be. I've definitely learned that the saying "people rarely remember what you say, but they always remember how you make them feel" is true.

That therapist is human being with obvious faults and lapses. If she's not laughing, then I wouldn't be either.

That was a hilarious dream.

I don't know if I can effectively tell this story without both of the expressions of me and my t being seen-but at the end of one of our sessions while referring to silliness I had going on with my class, my t commented-"That's crazy!" I looked at her very seriously and said, "well, yeah," and referenced myself with my hands. She looked mortified thinking she had offended me and started apologizing-you know how sensitive those pdocs and t's can be about the "crazy" word! I immediately laughed about it with her after she realized I wasn't really offended and had taken her comment in the way it was meant.
This was the same session that she already had accidentally burst out laughing at a comment in my journal-I like to write funny commentary along the way, and I was glad that she "got" my joke. After she realized that she had laughed spontaneously, she apologized for laughing. Personally, I believe she became a bit more human to me that day because she could let go enough to laugh.
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My T normally does deal well with her mistakes. She is naturally a very funny person with a self-depreciating humor that is endearing.

This was one of the very few times she didn't handle a mistake well. I don't normally take pleasure in the embarrassment of others. She usually plays off mistakes very well. Plus she was more embarrassed about snorting than the door incident...and she was already laughing!!

Therapy is usually a very serious thing and I am grateful I have a T that will intentially lighten the mood at times. I use the term goofball endearingly! We are both goofballs trying to make it in this icky world.