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Overheard After Accidentally Crashing a Cocktail Party

Posted on July 30, 2011 by eidolon

“So I was just starting to come out of my coma…

“…and I heard somebody, apparently a doctor or paramedic, say, ‘See?  He’s waking up.  He’ll be fine.’

And then I heard my wife say, ‘He doesn’t look fine.  He looks fucking dead.’

So I was still half unconscious but I started laughing uncontrollably.  Which is how I learned I had a punctured lung and three broken ribs.”

 

1 thought on “Overheard After Accidentally Crashing a Cocktail Party”

  1. Richard says:
    July 31, 2011 at 8:44 am

    Sounds like a Scott Phillips tale to me: “So when I got fired from my job at ‘Barely Legal Magazine’…”

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