A "Belly Laugh"...while I still have an excuse for a belly.

Remember how I switched doctors about 6 weeks ago?  Well, I've come to learn that every doctors' office does a few things differently.  When you reach the stage in your pregnancy when the doctor starts "checking you" they give you a sheet to drape over your nether regions.  In my last two doctors' offices there has always been a receptacle in the room to place the sheet in after the visit.  On my third visit to the new doctor I tossed my sheet in the metal bin and was about to turn on my way, when I did a double take.  Did I just notice that bin was full of trash?!  I yanked out the sheet and sure enough it was loaded with garbage.  Still not sure how I hadn't noticed that in previous weeks, or maybe I was just one of the first appointments of the day and there wasn't much in there yet.  So I dashed to the nurse's office and practically yelled, "Vicki, have I been throwing away my sheet each week?!" 

To which she just smiled and said, "Yep." 

"I'm so embarrassed!  Why didn't you say anything?!" 

"I just figured you thought you were helping." 

"Have you had to go dig it out each week?!" 

To which she just smiled again and said, "Yep."

She must have dreaded my each and every visit!  "Oh no, not this idiot again!" she must have thought.  So afterwards I went into my doctors office and with great shame I began to ask, "Do you know what I've been doing each week?!" 

She just laughed and said, "Throwing away your sheet?"

I was mortified! I must have been the office joke for weeks.  Apparently everyone in the office knew all about me, but no one had the decency to give my a heads up.  Glad they all got a good laugh at my expense.