That made me laugh out loud

• Is it my imagination? - HolidayMT
  • I had some decent Americans, - Z
    • That made me laugh out loud - Holiday MT
  • I type each weekend and plenty then - ESLs
  • Christmas is the same way. A lot of the ESL - it's not rocket science
  • This is a U.S. holiday so the ESLs don't normally celebrate it at home anyway, so - jo
    • Spanish, French do celebrate Christmas in USA - but Russian one is in Jan., and ...SM
  • I think - bjpnc
  • Yup, I think so - do the worst dictators volunteer - MT
    • Thanks for understanding - flamt
      • OK...this is for the birds (lol!) - MT

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Been there. That's why I work at home. Thanks for sharing.

I'm German so I guess I am at the bottom of the hiring list. 

This woman doctor is dictating away and then all of a sudden she's on the cell phone.  Apparently they had just handed down the Enron verdict at the time and her husband had called to tell her about it.  So she's blabbing away, "They're GUILTY!  Oh my gawd.  No I ddn't see it.  What channel are they showing it on?"

So she goes on for a few minutes and another woman in the office just started laughing hysterically.  The woman who was laughing must have been giving the doctor hand signals because the doctor says, "Oh my gawd, I gotta go.  I forgot I was dictating."

The doctor got back on line (with me) and she was trying to apologize, but couldn't stop laughing and the woman in the background was losing it, she was laughing so hard.  The doctor finally composed herself with a few giggles in between and finished the note, but before she hung up she apologized about 5 more times, trying not to laugh, and then you heard both of them just losing it with laughter before she hung up.

In this case, it really made my day because laughter is infectious, and apologies are worth their weight in gold in this business. But I know what you mean about the ones who really don't care.  It's happened to me too and there isn't a darn thing funny about it.

Where do you live that you get polite customer service from McDonald's?  lol.  I'm lucky if they acknowledge me when they stick their hand out the window for my money. 

like soothing music you would get with yoga.  A lot of people like Windsor Pilates.  I personally did not care for them.  I LOVE Denise Austin's pilates DVDs.  I have a couple.  One has a 30-minute workout and then I have one that is Hit the Spot in which the work outs are only 10 minutes.  I will do one of the core or abdomen ones in the a.m. and then do a lower bod one later in the day. 

Pilates do wonders for your strength, toning, flexibility.  I have been doing them off and on for years.  If I stop doing them for a few months and come back, I can tell the different in my flexibility and strength in just about 4 work outs.  I do them about 3 times a week.

brand spanking new PA student dictating for the first time this week! (hoo-boy).  I thought I heard her wrong when she said "uncontributory" (I didn't), but I about fell on the floor when she gave me.....wait for it......

"no ee-lik-it drug use"  BWAAAAAAAHHAAAAAA. 

propaganda becomes "truth" to some who can't think for themselves.  Either that, or throw out a zillion reasons why the heinous act was done to make it "sound" good, like he is a "liberator."  OMG, too funny to even think that shrub is a liberator...shrub a liberator....too funny!

I've run into a lot of people in this field who say, Just go get your own accounts, yet very few do. why?

I went for an interview and I was given some trial dictations regarding gross specimens and the background noise was HORRIBLE.  There was more background noise than dictator's voice.  I asked about that and was told "Oh, that's the way it has always been. The lab is just noisy."  I inquired further and they admitted the doctor uses a speaker phone type arrangement and the noise of the ventilating fans, electrical equipment, etc. is what creates the overpowering background noise.  But the lab director insisted that there was no other way, as they doctor needs both hands free when cutting up the specimen.  Is that true? 

If it were only adding up to three bucks, I wouldn't sweat it. $100? Yeah, that's baseball registration for my son for this year. I am not giving tabs, returns, etc. away free when it adds up to that much difference!  Why should I charge less for a Return than I would for a"K"?

I told my 18 yo son today about a close family friend and his wife had a baby boy today and that he called me right away to let me know because he was so excited.  My son looked at me and said, "Yeah right mom, really, he had a baby today."  I looked right back at him and said, "Yes son, it takes both people to have the baby, a girl certainly can't get pregnant by herself!" 

This is funny to me because I know my son not sexually active yet (remember I know his girlfriend) and I certainly didn't expect to hear something like that, just reminded me of the little boy my young man still is.