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So there was this guide who took us around the fort. As we finished the tour and were walking back, this conversation happens,
Guide: Sir, are you a doctor?
L&M: No, I am an ex-army man.
Guide: Oh wow! But then ma’am must be a doctor!
I look up in surprise. Why is the man obsessed with one of us being a doctor, I wonder.
Me: No. I am a homemaker.
You know, the kind of job that everyone thinks has no worth, has lots of free time and is too easy. Anyway, I don’t tell him that.
The guide looks surprised at my answer, as surprised as I was at his question. He turns to the L&M for confirmation of his initial observation but doesn’t get any.
Guide: But.., Ma’am has the face of a doctor!
Me: 😳
L&M: Really?
What does a doctor’s face look like, I wonder, trying to recall the faces of all the doctors I have known and know. The L&M in the meantime proceeds to take a second and more thorough look at me probably wondering how he had missed the doctor in his wife’s face these past four decades.
Moi to moi-self: And I thought all these years that I had the face of a duffer. Doctor, huh? Wait till I tell the world about this!
Trivia: So far I have been told I look like a journalist, a writer, and a “working” woman (The last like about a million times, because you see, by everyone’s logic, or lack of it, a homemaker doesn’t work!). The duffer face I deduced from the way people dole out advice to me at the drop of the proverbial hat. Anyways…
Signing off
Shail with the Face of a Doctor. Take that you who thought I looked like a duffer! You only got the ‘d’ right. Tchah! 😉
©️ Shail Mohan 2024
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I enjoyed this encounter.
Hi Anne! Thank you. Will be back with more stories of the fort and other places I saw. 😊
Glad you did, Anne! 🙂
Hmmm…now you mention it…I can see the doctor look! 😀
Haha
I forgot to say though – how come the guy asked the L & M first though?!
lol Ken. Good point. I have never seen anyone mistake him for anything other than a military man, and that as we know is not a mistake 😅
You gave me a good giggle, Shail. I have told that I look like a hairdresser and an actress. Go figure!
That’s hilarious! 😅
LOL.
I’m actually surprised that he didn’t ask you if you were a nurse, since from my experiences it was expected for every malayalee woman to be a nurse as it seems a majority do that if they work, if not medicine.
Haha! That’s true. I was once mistaken for a nurse trainee during my younger days, but then that was in a hospital 😀