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[MacDUFF]

Prayers up for you, surfk.  Looking forward to reading all about it!

[foundinlv]

Good luck on your procedure surfk.  Thanks for the funny story.  With a tee shirt like that you know he probably let it rip a few times.  

[kjae]

First, good luck tomorrow. Second, you really made me laugh.  Thanks.

[PamfromCT]

Wishing you well and sending you happy thoughts! You do have a good sense of humor! Your story was funny. I had a similar experience in a lab, reading Veranda magazine no less, when a noticed a guy with a very outrageous shirt. Can't describe - but his "in your face" view made me very nervous!

[betteb]

Checking to see if surfk has posted, wondering if she did ok with her procedure?

surfkkkkk!!!!!!!

[MyGirlsMom]

yeah surfk, inquiring minds want to know 

[hckynutjohn]

I have spent countless hours in ab

out every type of waiting room that exists. I saw many people wearing many different types of apparel and shoes. I don't exactly dress like I stepped out of GQ magazine, so what one wears?

Attire aside, I met a whole lot of very interesting people, many with cancer, some having procedures to find out. I've had my share of surgeries, and heaven knows, way more than my share of invasive procedures. 

Guess I might be missing the point of your thread, beats me! I read this as judging people by what they are wearing. I choose to take them for who they are.

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@surfk wrote:

Not to sound too "Death Becomes Her" (or would it be "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?).

Oh, various doctors are scheduled to enter my body in order to "do things" to me.

MEDICAL things.

So I had to go to get lab work done this morning.

That just sets the place...

So while I've seen those catalogs of tacky tee shirts -

(You know the sort. The ones with tacky slogan tees and beer steins and customized welcome mats adorned with decorative doggy doo-doo that say, "Don't step in the poo, Step inside!").

- I've really never seen a person actually wear one of them outside.

Like IN PUBLIC.

Until today.

I was in the waiting room of the lab and across from me was this middle-aged man, legs spread wide (you know how THAT goes) and wearing shoes that looked like some 14-century cobbler had made them....and a tacky slogan catalog tee.

I was done flipping through the "Diet Your Way Out of Depression" magazine (it was sumpthin' like that) when I began to really look at this man.

Its then I first noticed the word, "FART".

It was on his tee shirt.

Well, the WHOLE shirt read: "LOVE is like a FART..."

(Ah, the poetry).

Oh it gets better.

"... It hurts if you keep it in and terrific when you let it out."

And his wife was seated next to him no less! lol

Like, what wife who isn't strategically setting into motion the first steps of declaring her husband incompetent would let him out of the house wearing that?

I mean, aren't potty humor novelty tees mostly just for gag gifts (or drunks)?

But this man was going to walk around town in it all day? With his wife by his side?

I guess he must have just thought it was profound. Although I'm not sure he was making more of a point about LOVE or about FARTS.

I'm still working on that one.

PS) My procedure is nothing too serious. Unless I bleed out on the mad knifeman's table, of course.

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[INDIANA BONES]

I agree 100 percent.   There are many reasons why people wear certain clothes.  Some may have had donations of clothes and no money to purchase what some feel appropriate clothes.  Some may just like what they are wearing.   Some may have dementia.  Regardless, when we learn to judge others by their hearts and good intentions, life will be wonderful.  I hope I live to see that day but I doubt it.  

We teach our children not to judge others and pick on others, yet as adults some do the exact thing they taught their children not to do (or I hope they did).  Then we wonder why so many children have Peer pressure at school.  They learn judging from their parents at home.

[Moonchilde]

In order to enjoy surfk's posts, one needs a sense of humor. No sense of humor=not getting or enjoying her many amusing posts.

[GingerPeach]

I saw no judgement in the original post.  I saw a "slice of life" reported to us.  I saw someone wanting to take her mind off something that, even if a "small" procedure, is still serious.  After all, it is a surgical procedure.

Best wishes and gentle hugs (so I don't hurt you!) for tomorrow, @surfk