Ways to annoy your PTA.

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Me: How do you feel today?  

64 year old patient:  Well I spent a lot of time decorating my house for Christmas so I'm hurting more than usual. 

Me:  Okay, so on a 0 to 10 scale, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst, how would you rate your pain today? 

64 year old patient:  Like a 6, or maybe a 7.  Oh!  67!  *proceeds to make odd hand gesture*  

Me:  

64 year old patient:  My grand daughter taught me that!

Me:  

Edited December 3, 2025 by CassieQ

[Inkognito]

6 hours ago, CassieQ said:

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Me: How does your back feel today?  

64 year old patient:  Well I spent a lot of time decorating my house for Christmas so my back is hurting more than usual. 

Me:  Okay, so on a 0 to 10 scale, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst, how would you rate your back pain today? 

64 year old patient:  Like a 6, or maybe a 7.  Oh!  67!  *proceeds to make odd hand gesture*  

Me:  

64 year old patient:  My grand daughter taught me that!

Me:  

This whole exchange immediately made me think of one of my favorite memes. 😂

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Snow.

[Jason Rimbaud]

3 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Snow.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go!

[Jeff Burton]

20 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere you go!

I’m honestly trying not to be a Scrooge about it but… lol. We just had Christmas and now there’s another one? Time flew but I didn’t have any fun 😂

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Jeff Burton said:

I’m honestly trying not to be a Scrooge about it but… lol. We just had Christmas and now there’s another one? Time flew but I didn’t have any fun 😂

Maybe you need to come over here. I'll show you Christmas spirit! I have bows and everything.  

That sounds creepy. I won't edit it, I'll just clarify. I meant to my restaurant, I'll feed you, show you my Christmas village, get you in the spirit of things. 

[Jeff Burton]

12 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Maybe you need to come over here. I'll show you Christmas spirit! I have bows and everything.  

That sounds creepy. I won't edit it, I'll just clarify. I meant to my restaurant, I'll feed you, show you my Christmas village, get you in the spirit of things. 

Dude id go just for chicken wings lmao.

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Physically enter the clinic to announce that you have a cold/flu/stomach virus.  Please take yourself and your germs home, which is where I'm sending you anyway and call on the phone to cancel your appointment.   

[Ron]

24 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

cancel your appointment. 

Dang! You, sadly, get some characters of ill repute stopping by. 

[Jeff Burton]

1 hour ago, CassieQ said:

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Physically enter the clinic to announce that you have a cold/flu/stomach virus.  Please take yourself and your germs home, which is where I'm sending you anyway and call on the phone to cancel your appointment.   

That really annoys me just as a person. When I’m sick I don’t even want to be around people period, even if they’re just checking on me.

[Ron]

40 minutes ago, Jeff Burton said:

When I’m sick I don’t even want to be around people period

That’s one way of feeling on this subject. The other is, of course, that person who wants to be cuddled and babied throughout their ordeal. Men, in particular, seem to have an on-or-off switch when comes to being sick — it’s either leave me alone or baby me. I prefer the former, too.

Edited December 11, 2025 by Ron

[lawfulneutralmage]

4 hours ago, Ron said:

[...] Men, in particular, seem to have an on-or-off switch when comes to being sick — it’s either leave me alone or baby me. I prefer the former, too.

Well, I am a kind of in-the-middle-guy: please make me a tea, then leave me in peace 

But anyway, I still go by a proverb we had in the police: common sense is not as common as name might imply.

Edited December 11, 2025 by lawfulneutralmage
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[Jeff Burton]

8 hours ago, Ron said:

That’s one way of feeling on this subject. The other is, of course, that person who wants to be cuddled and babied throughout their ordeal. Men, in particular, seem to have an on-or-off switch when comes to being sick — it’s either leave me alone or baby me. I prefer the former, too.

I wish I could say I had the “baby me” but I recall in my last relationship when I got Covid I was like “if you touch me I’m probably going to hit you” 😂. Guess I’m a different kind of animal because when I’m sick I just wanna drink a gallon of NyQuil and sleep for a week.

[CassieQ]

15 hours ago, Ron said:

Men, in particular, seem to have an on-or-off switch when comes to being sick — it’s either leave me alone or baby me.

I don't get a choice.  Illness usually drops me like a rock, and won't let me wake up until it's over.  

[CassieQ]

Ways to piss off your PTA:  Lie about being sick so that I will treat you.  Especially right before I'm supposed to be traveling to see a dying relative in the hospital.    

[Jeff Burton]

On 12/12/2025 at 10:10 AM, CassieQ said:

Ways to piss off your PTA:  Lie about being sick so that I will treat you.  Especially right before I'm supposed to be traveling to see a dying relative in the hospital.    

I'm just going to start spraying people in the face with lysol.

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Me:  I'm going to check a few things with your balance,  can you please stand up? 

Patient:  Now?

Me: 

Patient:  

Me:  Yes, please.  Go ahead and stand up now.  

 

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Tell me you've had this foot/ankle/knee pain for 2 years but you need it fixed ASAP so you can go on a vacation/hiking trip/run a marathon next week. 

 

[Ron]

25 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

Tell me you've had this foot/ankle/knee pain for 2 years but you need it fixed ASAP so you can go on a vacation/hiking trip/run a marathon next week. 

People are generally and often times remarkably consistent in their expectations of recovery. No, no it won't take months of therapy. I'm resilient! I can do it! 

[Bill W]

48 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Tell me you've had this foot/ankle/knee pain for 2 years but you need it fixed ASAP so you can go on a vacation/hiking trip/run a marathon next week. 

 

This is part of contemporary societal expectation - they want everything NOW, if not sooner. 

[CassieQ]

Bonus post for the patient who was being treated for foot pain and asked if she really had to take her socks off.  

[lawfulneutralmage]

One cannot make it up..