When you call your doctor’s office for test results,
And the Brooklyn born* nurse gives you major attitude.
The best approach in getting your way?
Kill the bitch with kindness.
She won’t know what hit her.
DON’T MESS WITH A SOUTHERN GAL.
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*Please note I LOVE my Brooklyn pals, and this is in no way directed at them!
Sure, suuuuure you love us.
Great meeting up with you yesterday – we need to do it again as soon as I think of more great bargain shopping places to hit!
I wish I could come visit before moving down south! Good job on killing them with kindness – it’s harder for a Yankee like me to do that to the southerners, because I didn’t grow up saying ‘M’am and Sir’. Hope your news was good news!
Ham no offense taken from this new york guy via South Philly wuith a Brooklyn born wife. That’s showing them!
Bless her heart…
Miss Celania took my comment.
It’s just the Southern way isn’t it? Drown ‘em in syrup!
Fuggetaboutit Lisa! Did you pass your exam? Are you in the Honors’ Class? Let us know.
Three cheers for Lisa! And wouldn’t you think in the health CARE profession, geography would be a non-issue? I guess NY is exempt.
Hope the results were great! 
And THAT’S why I love you!
Couldn’t you just disappear her into your construction site?
I’ll write that on a card and stick it in my wallet right now.
That is very good advice. Whenever anyone treats me with attitude, I always lay on the manners, please sugar sweet and thank you so very much, you’re the best, just what I needed, I appreciate every bit of your effort, you are so kind and generous and helpful…. etc. and maybe it doesn’t help them, but it makes me feel oh so good!
I might just have to try that “kindness” thing sometime. LOL
Julie – I do, I really do!
And great hanging out with you as well. LOVE them bargains!
Mappy – Thanks Hon! And I wish you could come visit as well.
Just remember to say both those things and “have a nice day,” and you’ll be fine
Bud – You know I love you NY’ers! Past and present lol.
Miss Cellania – *snorts*
Serra – *snorts x 2*
Seamus – We prefer to call it “sugar”
Marty – All is going well, thanks!
Oob – Yayyyyyyy!
Yes, I don’t take crap from medical people especially since it’s my legal right to have my records.
Last Girl – Aww thanks! And I love ya back
Paul – Tempting though it was…. NO lol.
Jay – Happy to have helped
Schnoodlepooh – The kindness tends to disarm them. They expect you to give attitude back, and when you don’t they have no where to go. AND they look like a jerk, even to themselves
Se7en – Can’t hurt
killing them with kindness is the BEST way to go! and ever so very rewarding
if she’s HOT, you need to counterbalance the adenoidal Brooklym accent with the “hot woman in a nurse’s uniform”-factor.
LB- you are better than I. I may be a southern gal but I am not in tude. I don’t kill’em with kindness, I kill’em with sarcasm. But great going..
it’s my understanding that brooklyn born peeps aren’t capable of giving anyone anything OTHER THAN major attitude.
The more attitude they give, the more kindness they get!! Hey, it works! LOL.
Ah, Southern girls; they’ll just melt your heart. But cross ‘em and you’re dead where you stand.
Disclaimer: I’ve lived in VA for 46 years, so I’m well versed in Southen girls.
Well, bless her heart, isn’t that nurse just a beeotch?
Good for you! That is ALWAYS a great way to go towards people with attitude! They hate it!
How could you ever be anything but kind and lovely?
I’ve always found that the best way to really annoy someone that doesn’t like you is to treat them really nice. Makes you look good and them look even worse.
The first thing I look for in a sourpuss is if they’re wearing pointed toe shoes, ’cause if they are, that’s probably why they’re so bitchy. And I don’t say anything that might make ‘em wanna point that pointy toe anywhere near my arse. If they’re not wearing pointy toe shoes, however, then there’s no excuse for their attitude. So I laugh… and laugh… and laugh… until they laugh…. hahahaha! ;-D
I am not allowed by a certain law in my city to voice my opinions/thoughts/stories of nurses and/or what they do/say/know.
THAT SAID, PT and nursing rarely get along for more than three minutes….a day.
I’ve got your back.
Words to live by. Maybe I’ll consider a smile next time instead of popping a cap in someone’s ass.
Throw enough “darlins’” in and you can say almost anything. Well done, darlin’.
I was talking to a guy from Texas last night. He said that nobody can compete with a Southern woman when it comes to sarcasm. I learned that from “Designing Women.”
BUT, if i were you, i switch doctor for the next appointment. She might meddle with the result.
i once flirted with a nurse, then i stood her up. all my appointments after that came in some unGodly hours.
Kill ‘em with kindness, huh? I dont know Lisa B…thats pretty hard to do when a big-haired, trash-talking gal is giving you additude. So, yeah…brava Lisa…brava.
P.S. If you get the chance, can you email me…I kinda have this question to ask you…
The best way? Tell them about the new hair and nail salon down the road, and that you’ll give them a gift certificate.
Works for all those Brooklyn girlies!
(Of course that’s where I’m originally from…)