A quip for FOX3.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:59 pm
OK, I'm cheating this in here but it is vaguely aviation connected and I think humorous.
Today I had a wellness check, I don't really see the point since my doctor does this already but my insurance company thinks it's a good idea. Most of the exam was abbreviated because the examiner caught me working in the garden which apparently made three pages of questions about using walking sticks, having back pain, being short of breath etc. pointless. Then we came to the cognitive ability check.
So says the man, I am going to give you three words to remember, then I will give you a sheet of paper on a clipboard on which I want you to draw a clock face and mark the four most important time values, then I will ask you to repeat the memorised words. The words are, banana, pencil and aeroplane. At this point I had a problem not laughing out loud.
I drew the clock face adding roman numerals for the times just to be difficult, then he asked me to repeat the words which, of course, I could do quite confidently - that is when I couldn't help laughing. He asked what I thought was so funny. I explained to him that in 40 years of flying AEROPLANES it was quite normal to be offered a BANANA as the reward if you did things right. His reply was that if I could remember the joke I must be OK.
Dumb I know but funny at the time.
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Today I had a wellness check, I don't really see the point since my doctor does this already but my insurance company thinks it's a good idea. Most of the exam was abbreviated because the examiner caught me working in the garden which apparently made three pages of questions about using walking sticks, having back pain, being short of breath etc. pointless. Then we came to the cognitive ability check.
So says the man, I am going to give you three words to remember, then I will give you a sheet of paper on a clipboard on which I want you to draw a clock face and mark the four most important time values, then I will ask you to repeat the memorised words. The words are, banana, pencil and aeroplane. At this point I had a problem not laughing out loud.
I drew the clock face adding roman numerals for the times just to be difficult, then he asked me to repeat the words which, of course, I could do quite confidently - that is when I couldn't help laughing. He asked what I thought was so funny. I explained to him that in 40 years of flying AEROPLANES it was quite normal to be offered a BANANA as the reward if you did things right. His reply was that if I could remember the joke I must be OK.
Dumb I know but funny at the time.
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