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To have been left almost completely speechless by my GP?

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thefuturesnotourstosee · 19/06/2013 09:47

I popped into the local supermarket for some milk yesterday evening. In the queue there was a man behind me who looked vaguely familiar. He said hello to me and dd then started asking how I was - normal polite conversation. I told him I was OK omitting to mention vomiting bug I'd just suffered TMI and he said quietly so no one else could hear

"oh good and how are your breasts?"

I stammered err fine thank you and got out of there with children as quickly as possible looking over my shoulder as I went.

Only half way home did I realise it was the GP who'd treated me for mastitis a couple of weeks ago

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TheBirdsFellDownToDingADong · 19/06/2013 17:51

My gynaecologist now beams down at me from posters on every street corner. It doesn't help that he looks like that orange antique man with his bouffy hair.

He became an MP after delivering dd. (I do not, I hasten to add, think the 2 events are connected in any way) but I always smile and do a silent little wave to his biiiiiiiiig face thinking last time I saw that bouff it was betwixt my nethers.

youarewinning · 19/06/2013 18:00

A few years ago my friend was in a singing competition that was organised to raise money for charity. The whole way through I kept thinking I recognised one of the guest judges - a surgeon who would be using the machine the money was being raised for.

My friend won - the surgeon came over to congratulate her and her singing. Kept smiling at me. Eventually I said I recognised him from somewhere - he performed my colorectal surgery 2 week previously he did ask how I was

I guess the GP thought he was being caring - at least he whispered it but I do agree it's a little personal for the supermarket.

ohmeohmyforgotlogin · 19/06/2013 20:33

You know the correct response was " fine thanks, how are your bollocks" don't you?

BlackholesAndRevelations · 19/06/2013 20:49

Lol anyoneforturps!!

My mum used to get people telling her their teeth hurt (dental nurse) in the middle if the supermarket. What do they think she'd do, say "open wide then, let's have a look?"! (erm... Yes, probably... )

TolliverGroat · 19/06/2013 20:55

I keep seeing Nick Clegg on his way to drop his kids off at school, find he looks vaguely familiar, notice the children and assume he must be the father of one of my DCs' friends so give him a bright smile. Then 20 paces further on realisation kicks in and I think "D'oh...."

Now that's embarassing...

TolliverGroat · 19/06/2013 20:57

A former colleague of mine once told Claudia Schiffer that they must catch up properly over dinner some time soon. Apparently she'd looked very familiar and he'd assumed she was one of his wife's friends.

mummytowillow · 19/06/2013 20:57

This brought this embarrassing incident back to me

I travelled by train to London to have final bit of IVF treatment (embryo transfer) on a Saturday.

Doctor was lovely but spent half an hour with his face focused on my fango

Everything went well, we get on the train and a man gets on. We both stare at each other wondering why we recognise each other. Penny finally drops and he winked at me

IVF worked though, and my DD is 6

apostropheuse · 19/06/2013 21:02

My ribs are sore from laughing at your post OP - and also at anyoneforturps - next time someone tells you about their discharge in the supermarket just say "Oh do you think you've speaking to my identical twin, who's a doctor?"

Northernlurker · 19/06/2013 21:02

It sounds like he was very discreet and I think it shows care and attention.

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 19/06/2013 21:05

I spent ages staring at a familiar-looking bloke at the village fete recently trying to place him; school run? Post Office? Doctor?

Turned out to be Michel Roux Jr, there to judge the cakes

AnyoneforTurps · 19/06/2013 21:25

Tolliver Nick Clegg is probably grateful for every smile & wave he can get.

apostropheuse I like the identical twin line - mentally stored for later use .

thefuture I look at their faces to try to work out whether I should be saying "how wonderful" or calling an ambulance

Jojobump1986 · 19/06/2013 21:31

Surely he could've phrased it better & asked if your mastitis had cleared up, not just "how are your breasts?"!

MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik · 19/06/2013 22:34

Oh, no. I'm sorry but that's hilarious. He won't do that again in a hurry.

JellyBelly10 · 19/06/2013 22:45

Years ago I was in a pub and a woman smiled at me as if she knew me. I had no idea who she was. We ended up at the bar near each other and she made a point of coming over and saying hell and asked me how I was. Not wanting to be too rude I said I was fine thanks but had to admit that although she looked familiar (she didn't!) I couldn't remember how I knew her. And she leaned in a little closer and said loud enough for other people to hear "I'm from the mental health team"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It turned out I'd met her once when I had postnatal depression about a year earlier!! Couldn't have picked her out in a line up yet she remembered me and felt it appropriate to mention "mental health team" for all and sundry to hear!!

bottleofbeer · 19/06/2013 22:45

My bloody smear nurse has a child in my daughter's class.

Don't suppose she recognises my face though.

SoftlySoftly · 19/06/2013 22:54

My friend once had a very long conversation with someone she "knew" until they were floundering and the other woman said "I don't know you at all do I?".

Embarrassed friends apologises and says she recognised her face.

Other woman States "well yes I was on big brother"

complexnumber · 19/06/2013 22:58

Some years ago I spotted someone I recognised in a super market in Saudi. I wasn't quite sure where I knew him from, but he gave me a big smile and asked how things were getting on.

For some reason I then assumed he was the manager of the supermarket, and asked him where the pickled onions were, several times.

He moved away from me quite quickly.

Several days later I came across him again as the dentist to my dd.

HooverFairy · 19/06/2013 23:19

I panic when someone speaks to me as if I should know them, I have terrible trouble placing people. One summer I bumped into a lady who had been on my training course a year earlier, I'm quite shy so was rambling on to make conversation when suddenly she said "You do know who I am, don't you?", I thought this was weird and replied, "yes, X" and she nodded. I carried on rambling about my new job whilst she continued to look confused.

A few weeks later I saw her again, but this time at work. It suddenly dawned on me that I'd had her confused; she was actually someone I'd recently started working with who looked very similar to the lady from my training course. To make things worse, she had the same name! I was so embarrassed and went to apologise as soon as I realised, but she just didn't seem to warm to me much after that. I still cringe when I think about it, I'm so glad I left.

Wetwood656 · 19/06/2013 23:29

That made me snort complex

I wonder about the op's GP why he just didn't say "how are you ?" Instead of being so specific. Especially as he must see a lot of patients and might remember wrongly one day without the aid of his notes and just imagine if it had been a sore back that op had seen him with said by me who actually asked an ex patient how his wife was and then saw his face and at that split second remembered she had died and I was actually there when she died

FeijoaVodkaStat · 19/06/2013 23:53

I had a random yet vaguely familiar looking man smile at me at the playground a couple of weeks back. He probably thought I was giving him a dirty look as I tried to figure out who he was.
It wasn't until a few days later I twigged he was my regular post man (who has seen me in my pj's far to often at 10am ).

FeijoaVodkaStat · 19/06/2013 23:54

Wetwood - Ouch!

Thisvehicleisreversing · 20/06/2013 00:14

I saw a lady in a restaurant once who I was convinced was the make up and fashion expert off GMTV. I kept looking at her and saying "ooh yes it's definitely her, wonder what she's doing here?" (out in the sticks)
She saw me looking and kept smiling at me.

A few weeks later she served me in Tesco

HighInterestRat · 20/06/2013 00:23

I work for the council, deal with people all day and live locally so I often bump into people I recognise, who know me too but can't place me. It's highly confusing.

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