the "any chance you're pregnant?" question.
My doctors usually take "no" for an answer there. But they follow it up with a question about my form of birth control. Since going off the pill several years ago I usually answer, "My personality."
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Jun 10, 2005 8:04:08 am PDT #1047 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 8:05:16 am PDT #1048 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I want a doctor to ask me about birth control (it's been years since one did) so I can use "These bruises." as the answer.
tiggy - Jun 10, 2005 8:12:19 am PDT #1049 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
No, but I wasn't driving an interstate when it happened, so I was able to do some stretches to try and de-cramp my neck right away.
you've got a point there. i was trying to loosen it with my free hand, but it wasn't doing much good.
I don't think she's slept in two years.
the craziest thing about the co-worker? after she had the last one, she was back to work in two weeks. mostly because she was a temp and she wasn't getting paid for that time off, but still.
Since going off the pill several years ago I usually answer, "My personality."
ha! i like that one.
Vortex - Jun 10, 2005 8:14:36 am PDT #1050 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I've used "not unless I was abducted by aliens" in answer to the "any chance you're pregnant?" question.
I often use "unless there's a star rising in the east, no"
Ginger - Jun 10, 2005 8:19:45 am PDT #1051 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I use the "Is there a star in the east?" one too.
Rick - Jun 10, 2005 8:19:58 am PDT #1052 of 10001
In my research we sometimes get people drunk in the laboratory. The ethics board requires us to get a pregnancy test for all women before giving them alcohol, no matter how convincing their belief that they could not be pregnant.
For a while I thought that this was needless interference, but it turns out not everyone can be trusted to know these things. For instance, a woman may be so embarrassed that she recently had sex with her hated ex-boyfriend in a moment of weakness that she "forgets" about it when telling the assistant that she hasn't had sex in the last year. And in a college population, being a self-identified lesbian doesn't seem to preclude having unprotected sex with men on occasion. So we just use the pregnancy tests on everyone.
bon bon - Jun 10, 2005 8:21:19 am PDT #1053 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
In my research we sometimes get people drunk in the laboratory.
Soooo, Rick, where do you work again?
Sue - Jun 10, 2005 8:21:48 am PDT #1054 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Do you pay these people to get drunk?
tommyrot - Jun 10, 2005 8:22:19 am PDT #1055 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Soooo, Rick, where do you work again?
Beergoggles Inc?
(sorry)
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2005 8:23:23 am PDT #1056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've used "If I were, people would start building altars pretty soon" when a doctor just would not believe me that there was no chance I could be pregnant. And this was after I'd already answered "no" to the "Are you sexually active?" question.