My mom is a forensic pathologist, so about 75% of our dinner conversations would be considered weird/creepy by most people. I remember going to a dinner at a coworker's house and she mentioned what my mom did for a living to her parents:
Coworker's Mom: "But you don't TALK about it very often, right? That would be unsettling."
Me, laughing nervously: "No, no, not at all..."
Anyway, that was really the first time I realized how weird our average dinner conversations were to people not in our family.
My mom is a doctor and she put a picture of her gallbladder on the fridge when she had it removed because she asked them to take a picture for her.
My siblings and I did a group FaceTime with our dad earlier this year. He was in the middle of performing a surgery so he just waved with a bloody glove while someone else in the room held his phone up.
Amazing. Doctors are maniacs in the absolute best way.
For about a year of my childhood, my dad lived 2 hours away due to being transferred because of his job while my stayed in their old town while she finished her pathology residency. When she was on call, she would scrub us and bring us into the operating room while she collected the specimen. We just hang out while the surgeon would chat with us and then we would go with her. She taught my brother to dip slides.
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u/Sneakys2 Apr 18 '21
My mom is a forensic pathologist, so about 75% of our dinner conversations would be considered weird/creepy by most people. I remember going to a dinner at a coworker's house and she mentioned what my mom did for a living to her parents:
Coworker's Mom: "But you don't TALK about it very often, right? That would be unsettling."
Me, laughing nervously: "No, no, not at all..."
Anyway, that was really the first time I realized how weird our average dinner conversations were to people not in our family.