My visit to the gyno today made me laugh:
1.) I was offered a video appt. I keep picturing myself perched on the bed, a chair, or the toilet, trying to get the right camera angle
2.). Mean laugh at the myth of German efficiency—as usual, the receptionist completely finished with the patient ahead of me before giving me the 3 pages of forms for a new patient to fill out, then did the same to the next patient while working with/waiting for me.
3.) I gave a urine sample after the exam, then sat in the waiting room with about 5 other people while they checked it, until the receptionist called me out by name, and said no evidence of x or y had been found in my urine. No one else blinked.
Related—when they did sex Ed in my son’s school
1. No forms, info or permission slips ahead of time
2. They used the f-word in class
3. They went around the room of tenth grade boys and had each guy say hat sexual experience he’d had.
I guess these are only funny from a particular cultural standpoint. We laugh all the time at this sort of thing, and about how weird some American things must look to Germans.
