I just wanted to give you guys a good laugh. My husband was operated on last week at Beth Israel in NYC. Today was the one week follow-up.

Alan and I are in the ortho guy’s waiting room.

Alan is sitting in his wheelchair. A woman comes around in her wheelchair and parks herself next to Alan.

Something goes flying in the air and underneath Alan’s wheelchair. We both started to reach for it, when she screams “my TEETH, my TEETH, and sure enough her TEETH are underneath Alan’s wheelchair. I didn’t touch them. She said ‘No, please let me get them”

I did.


Then a couple rolls up and the lady is in yet another wheelchair. We started chatting because we were all waiting for our access-a-ride pickups. We had a LONG wait!!!

So we passed the time chatting.

The guy was a friendly chatty guy.

Then he walks over to Alan (just try and picture this in your head). And he goes to Alan, ‘oh, I do imitations, have you ever heard of Cary Grant?” (Now who on earth has NOT heard of Cary Grant??). ALAN, THAT’S WHO!!! But he’s polite and says “oh sure’.

The guy starts doing CARY GRANT, right there in the waiting room.

Then he starts doing Jimmy Stewart, and then .........he starts to imitate Rod Steiger.
So what does Alan say? “Oh, I loved Rod Steiger, he was so good in the Twilight Zone”

I said “no, you ninny, that’s Rod Serling”.

And just now, Alan said “I know who Cary Grant is, he’s from Gone with the Wind”. I said: “No, that’s Clark Gable”. Then he said ‘you know what picture I liked Cary Grant in (get ready for this one). I said “oh, do tell”. And he goes “what the hell was the name of that movie, when he was stuck on an island with a woman and they had to wait to get rescued??” I’m trying to remember ANY Cary Grant movie where he is stuck on an island with a woman and waiting to get rescued. So he goes “You know the movie, they were on an Island”. And he goes “wait, I got it, ‘DAY OF THE DOLPHIN!!!!

I just looked at him and said “you have got to be kidding, that was with George C. Scott”. And he says “oh, I get them mixed up!!!!

WAIT THERE’S MORE.

We go downstairs to wait for our access-a-ride pick up (now remember we are in New York City, where obviously NOTHING BOTHERS ANYONE, right?

Guess what passes us by on the sidewalk A SAMURAI WARRIOR. Complete with big long blade hanging on his side, full regalia, etc. And this headgear thing on top of his head.

I have never seen a man from Shogun walking on the sidewalk so I go “oh my god” Alan is going “Holy ****, that guy is from Vietnam”. “VIETNAM” ??????????????????

And no one else is giving him a second look. I guess people from Shogun are walking on the sidewalks of NYC all the time.