Kids Say the Darnedest Things

Had to post this before I forgot: I was seeing a 10-yr-old patient the other day and commented on his Minecraft T-shirt. He said, "I guess your grandson must play Minecraft if you know what it is." I was too stunned to speak for a minute, and his mother said, "Son, you're not scoring any points with the doctor making comments like that." I told him that my SON had played Minecraft, but I also had a 19-year-old, so I was certainly old enough to be a grandmother (didn't want him to fee bad, you know; I do care about children's feelings). But that made me realize that it's been several years since I got comments like, "You look too young to be a doctor," which occurred almost every day when I was a fellow and just starting practice. Once, an older father even came out of the exam room when I was finished seeing his son and yelled at my nurse, "When is the DOCTOR going to come in?" Oh well, may as well cancel the Meaningful Beauty subscription....