I went for my 3-month checkup with my primary care physician. As he sticks the needle in my arm he starts in.
“Something is very wrong!”
“WHAT? What’s wrong?????”
Slowly drawing the blood, he changes vials and stares at me and says:
“The last great American Institution is being sold to a foreign power.”
Me: “I hope it’s the White House.”
“No, the stock market. THE GERMANS ARE BUYING IT!”
Me: “This can’t be, they lost the war, how come they are taking over everything?”
As we march to his office for my drug prescription, he continues his tirade.
“I don’t know if you are a Democrat or Republican, but this nation is NOT going in the right direction, I’m afraid.”
Me: “Hmmm…”
“Yup, I think he’s a socialist! Obama!”
Me: Oh! What was my blood pressure?”
As he starts to print out the prescriptions, the computer is slow to respond.
“MILLIE! THIS THING IS NOT RESPONDING! Now this country has no heroes. Who are the heroes?”
Me: “Well I…”
“You have a bunch of sports figures making obscene amounts of money (without a M.D. practice no less), they are felons, druggies, rapists and bad people. Is that what the kids should look up to?”
Somehow, Madoff came to mind, but I dismissed it and decided I needed to get him back to earth.
Suddenly, his wife appears at the door, and says: “YOU PROMISED TO GET OUT OF HERE ON TIME TODAY! AND STOP TALKING POLITICS.”
Sheepishly he looks down and says “Ok.”
1 comment:
I feel as you do about this. It's another step backwards on America's road to becoming a second rate power in the world. Sorry, gotta go, it's time for my Chinese language lesson.
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