I was at the doctor’s office for a procedure. I was feeling pretty mellow with the sedative that I’d been given.

The nurse was putting on a blood pressure monitor cuff and said that she needed to get a bigger one because I had large arms. She added that most folks who needed larger cuffs needed them because they were pretty large overall. Apparently, my bulging biceps were too much for regular cuffs.

I’m not used to women commenting on my body at all, much less favorably so I wasn’t sure how to respond.

I came up with a response long after the colonoscopy was over: “That’s very flattering but the mood is spoiled by the fact that you’re about to shove a fifty foot camera up my tush.”

I’m pretty sure that with the sedative I probably would have said “argle”. Either way, it’s just as well that I didn’t try to say anything.