I worked for 7 years in a nursing home. One day we had a nurse educator visit to teach the staff how to care for a new resident we would be getting. I was in the conference room with nurses and the educator was putting a tape in the VCR.One of our residents, B, wheeled herself into the conference room. B always wanted to know what was going on. She asked the educator who said, "We're getting ready to watch a video tape on tracheostomy care."
B asked, "What's that?"
The educator began a lengthy description of what a tracheostomy was and was getting into describing special care it may need.
B interrupted the educator and said, "No. I meant 'what's a video tape?'"
(This is one of my favorite stories of the nursing home, but I realized that pretty soon people won't get the humor because VCR's and video tapes won't be commonplace.)
I don't have a VCR any more. Love the story though.
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ReplyDeleteI worked in a retirement village and one of the funniest conversations I ever overheard was one resident explaining to another what a "woofer" was and how it was used to emphasise the bass. The other resident just didn't know how to respond!
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ReplyDeleteThis is a great story, reminds me of when I spent a lot of time giving computer instructions over the phone. Back before windows we had to be fluent in DOS.
Telling a non computer person to type *.* can turn into stardotstar. Took me several times of giving instructions to this one person before I asked her to tell me specifically what she had typed. I had to put her on hold till I could breathe again.