Not Guilty Verdict
posted 26th Aug
NOT GUILTY VERDICT
Although my memory's fading. I actually kept my mammogram appointment.
I chose a seat next to a man and his wife in the waiting room. Both the chairs and conversations were so comfortable that before long I'd totally forgotten why I was there and asked the man. "So...what are you here for?"
Talk about a show stopper. Dead silence just as "Nurse Ratchet" announced my name in her best baritone voice.
I thought, "Great..a name to match the idiot.." I rushed past the giggles and hurried after the angel of no mercy.
Rounding the corner, I was met with:
"Hi! I'm Belinda!"
This perky clipboard carrier smiled from ear to ear, tilted her head to one side and crooned:
"Allll I need you to do is step into this room right heeeere strip to the waist, thennnn slip on this gown. Everything clearrrr?"
I'm thinking:
"Belinda...try decaf. This ain't rocket science."
Belinda skipped away to prepare the chamber of horrors.
Call me crazy, but I suspect a man invented this machine. It takes a perfectly healthy cup size of 36-B to a size 38-LONG in less than 60 seconds..
Also, girls aren't made of sugar and spice and everything nice...it's Spandex. We can be stretched, pulled and twisted over a cold 4-inch piece of square glass and still pop back into shape.
With the right side finished, Belinda flipped me (literally) to the left and said:
"Hmmmm. Can you stand on your tippy toes and lean in a tad so we can get everything?"
Fine, I answered. I was freezing, bruised, and out of air, so why not use the remaining circulation in my legs and neck and finish me off?
My body was in a holding pattern that defied gravity when we heard, then felt, zap! Complete darkness.
"What?" I yelled.
"Oh, maintenance is working. Bet they hit a snag."
Belinda headed for the door.
"Excuse me! You're not leaving are you?" I shouted.
Belinda kept going and said:
"Oh, you fussy puppy....the door's wide open so you'll have the emergency hall lights. I'll be righttttt backkkk."
Before I could shout "NO" she disappeared.
And that's exactly how Bubba and Earl, maintenance men extraordinaire, found me, half-naked and parts of me dangling from the Jaws of Life.
After exchanging polite: "Hi, how's it going" type greetings, Bubba (or possibly Earl) asked, to my utter disbelief, if I knew the power was off.
Trying to disguise my hysteria, I replied with as much calmness as possible:"
Uh, yes...yes we did, thanks."
"You bet, take care" Bubba replied and waved good-bye as though we'd been standing in the line at the grocery store.
Two hours later, Belinda breezes in wearing a sheepish grin and making no tempt to suppress her amusement, she said:
"Oh I am soooo sorry! The power came back on and I totally forgot about you! And silly me, I went to lunch. Are we upset?"
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And that, Your Honor, is exactly how her head ended up between the mammogram clamps!
And through tears of laughter he said, "NOT GUILTY!!!!!"
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