Overheard in PT

"you know yawning is contagious" - hungover patient
"I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm so tired today, I even went to bed early last night!" - me
"You need to party more. It will rejuvenate you" - hungover patient


"My back hurts more today! And I don't think I did anything different."
1 minute later.... "Oh, wait yes I did! I was sitting on a desk attached to a wall... and it broke!"


"if my patient shows up 20 minutes late again, i'm going to scream!" - me to a student
"you know what you need? Tequila!" - student


"Have you been doing your exercises every day?" - me
"oh yes, I'm all about consistency. That's why I have to have my appointment scheduled at the exact same time" - patient (who showed up 20 minutes late... AGAIN)
"how about working on consistency with coming to therapy? You have cancelled or missed half of your scheduled appointments. If you come more often, you will progress more quickly" - me
"Oh, have I really missed that many? wow. Well I'll see what I can do" - chronically late and absent patient

Ten minutes later:

"Well you won't be seeing him again for two weeks." - A (front desk)
"WHAT?! Why not?!!"- me
"we didn't have any openings in for the same time slot. We had some half an hour later though, but he wouldn't come unless it was the same time" - A
Seriously?!?!