I Hear Peru Is Lovely This Time Of Year
FUNNY NAMES, IGNORING & INATTENTIVE, MEDICAL OFFICE, NURSES, USA, WASHINGTON | HEALTHY | NOVEMBER 29, 2020
When my oldest son is a baby, I take him to the doctor for one of his early checkups. A nurse comes out to the lobby and announces a name.
Nurse: “Leema?”
My appointment time has passed, so I am paying close attention and wonder if that could be for my son, whose name is Liam. I don’t think anyone could mess it up that much, so I wait until the nurse has announced the name multiple times and no one has responded.
Finally:
Me: “Do you mean Liam?”
She looks at the paper.
Nurse: “No, it’s Leema.”
I figure I was wrong and she continues to call out “Leema” a few more times. Finally, she comes up to me.
Nurse: “What name did you say earlier?”
Me: “It’s Liam.”
It was for us. She was quite a scatterbrain; in the following years I had a few more kids and took them all to the same doctor, and that nurse was always a little different. I still sometimes call my son Leema.
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