Unable To Digest That Women Have Other Parts
Bigotry, France, Health & Body, Jerk, Pharmacy | Healthy | February 5, 2020
(My aunt wakes up one day with very bad stomach pain and gas. My uncle goes to the pharmacy for her and has this conversation with the pharmacist at the counter.)
Uncle: “My wife has stomach pain; what kind of medicine should she take?”
Pharmacist: *in a nonchalant tone* “It must be period cramps. Don’t worry.”
Uncle: “My wife who’s menopaused for two years? I don’t think so.”
Pharmacist: “Then it’s her menopause. Again, no worries.”
Uncle: “I didn’t know menopause could cause stomach pain.”
Pharmacist: *now with a more pedantic tone* “Well, you see, it’s not her stomach. Don’t worry about it.”
(By now my uncle is getting a little pissed off by the pharmacist’s insistence, so he puts his hands on the counter and speaks slowly.)
Uncle: “Listen here. My wife wakes up with stomach pain. The upper part of her belly is swollen; that’s where the stomach is. And she has gas coming from her digestive system, where the stomach is connected. Can I have a medicine for that or not?”
(The pharmacist went to his manager, who found the correct medicine in one minute. We don’t know why he was so insistent with his false diagnosis.)
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