When he talks, other people yawn

DEAR EDITOR:

A few months back I was talking to my first wife.

We had been having a nice conversation and I suddenly remembered something that

I had been meaning to ask her for a while. So before I forgot what it was, I said, “Wife have you noticed that something always happens when I am talking to people?”

She thought for a moment then she said, “No not really... what is it?”

I said, “I have noticed that when I am talking to people they all seem to do the same thing.”

She said, “So… what is it?” I said, “they all start yawning.”

She said, “Oh you are being daft,” as she stifled a yawn, I was not amused.

A few weeks later with this peroneal dilemma showing no signs of abating, I had an “annual’ doctor’s appointment, one that cannot be done over the phone no matter how smart my physician is.

The appointment necessitated me removing my pants and my underpants and “bending right over.” I am in my very late seventies, and bending “right over” has its challenges.

My doctor is the same age as my highly-opinionated daughter, and she too is female and in her fifties, and she too is not behind the door when offering an unsolicited opinion be it medical or otherwise.

After the “bend-over” procedure was finished, my nice doctor then tossed her gloves into the “hazard” container and washed her hands.

I had pulled up my pants and was fastening my suspenders plus making sure that my fly was also zipped up and in good presentation be-fronting a lady. I was expecting a medical lecture on losing weight or exercising as per...

She said to me, “So … Don … you said a minute ago that you had a question for me. what is it?”

I was just about to humbly seek her advice on why people yawn when I am talking to them when she — my personal young medical advisor — stifled a massive yawn. She apologized of course saying it had been a long day.

I faked a memory loss telling her that whatever my question was it couldn’t have been important because I had forgotten it.

So now people, I have but one question. If you managed to hang in there and read all of this diatribe how many of you had to yawn? Don Smithyman

Oliver