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Originally posted by KappaStargirl
people (mostly senior citizens) who come up to me at the reference desk and ask me for health books and THEN proceed to tell me about all their health problems. I have to stop them. I get grossed out so easily I can't even watch ER.
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My mother-in-law loves nothing more than relating her and her family's physical ailments to anyone within earshot! Example:
Me: How come (my husband's younger brother) couldn't come to brunch?
MiL: He has a cold
Me: nods
MiL: He has green and yellow phlegm coming from his nose
Me:
or
Me: I'm sorry you're going into the hospital; do you expect to take much time off work:
MiL: I'm not sure, I expect I will be off awhile
Me: Oh
MiL: The doctors will be packing my vagina with cotton, you know.
Me:
or
MiL: I got a precancerous growth removed; let me show you the scar.
Me:
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