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Originally Posted by Diesel4me
I've had two of them lately.
My mother has terminal cancer and my sister and i were discussing memorial service ideas. She said she would probably rent a banquet hall or some large room somewhere and go to Sam's Club and buy some horse de vores. I said WHAT? You mean hors D'oeuvres? I laughed and laughed.
The other day i was talking to my SO and his mother needs a heart valve replacement. He said he took her to her heart specialist. I said oh, her cardiologist? He says, no, her heart specialist. This time i did my laughing on the inside.
Feel free to post about moments that made YOU feel like the genius in the room.
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First off, sorry to hear about the health situations with your and your SO's moms. Hope everything goes as well as it can in both instances!
Supervising a bunch of warehouse guys, a couple are H.S. graduates and several didn't make it that far, I'm faced with those conversations on a daily basis.
One that will always stick with me occurred several years ago when I was training a new employee. I was showing him the check-in process for new seed as it comes through the door. He wanted to know why a bag smelled like pickles. I explained to him that it was a bag of dill seed and dill is one of the spices used in making dill pickles. He was flabbergasted. Until I blew his mind explaining that one of the other bags he was checking in was cucumber seed, and pickles are made from soaking the cucumbers in the brine with the dill (being simplistic, of course). He just couldn't believe that both of those were grown from seed. When I asked him where he thought they came from, he said he had no idea. They were just on the shelf in the grocery store, wrapped in plastic or in a jar.