1st woman: “So how's your Seamus, now?”
2nd woman: “Oh, he's sore bad, so he is. They say he could have died, God bless him. They're keeping him in the hospital, so they are.”
1st woman: “Sure and what is it that's wrong with him?”
2nd woman: “Oh, it's a food poisoning thing – it's chlamydia difficult, they're calling it. Well, it's difficult for him, I'm telling you...
12 October 2011
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Medical malapropisms are ubiquitous. From Spinal Mighty Jesus (for spinal meningitis) to Bavarian enema. Kids are the best but I can never remember them. The first thing to go is memory....
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