Ma and Pop had no idea what an endless source of laughter it would be to name their son Lynn.
This most recent hilarious incident happened at a doctor’s appointment. There’s no one in the waiting room, not even the receptionist/medical assistant. So I wait alone for about 20 minutes. Then a woman dressed in scrubs comes in from outside with a couple of coffees, sees me, and goes in the back. And stays there. Until a little later I go back and find her and ask if anyone’s going to check me in.
She says, “Oh, do you have an appointment?”
I say, “Yeah, I’ve been in the waiting room for 45 minutes. Lynn Berg?”
“Oh!” she says, “I thought Lynn Berg was a woman!”
Why she didn’t even check to see who was sitting alone in the waiting room remains a mystery. This doctor’s office is, obviously, horribly managed.
Ma’s response, despite a lifetime of evidence, is the same as it’s been since I was a kid. “Lynn’s a man’s name. It’s always been a man’s name!” She says this while laughing.
Kind of reminds me of that time when I was a kid and Johnny Cash’s “Boy Named Sue” came on the radio. Pop said to me, “Hey, Lynn, it’s your song!”
Uproarious laughter.
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