"Stop Laughing"

My roommate Cala discusses about the hilarious events that happened at the clinic, "If this were to happen in a movie, you would think it would never happen in real life because this is too stupid to happen."

To apply for my work visa (ARC), I need to get a medical examiniation done. So this morning Cala went with me to a clinic to get my checkup. To justify my upcoming actions, I woke up early around 8am only having about 4 hours of sleep, recovering from my long flight the previous night.

We first went to get my photos taken. I was ready to take my photo and you have to press the button when you're ready to take it. I pushed the button thinking that I took the photo, only realizing that after a couple of mins a flash sound is played and then it takes my picture. The first picture was awful as I really looked funny since my eyes were closed and my lip was halfway shut. When Cala and I were later talking about what happened at the clinic we felt that the picture really justified how I felt that morning.

I then waited to see the doctor. He went over my medical history and he told me to go outside to the next person. So Cala is standing outside the door and I go out and go to the next door. Cala asks me where I was going. I told her the doctor wanted me to go to the next room. Cala goes are you sure? I said yeah why? She says, "Well because this room is only for the elderly." Then I realized that the doctor wanted me to go to this desk outside the room. I was like wow..okay lol

There was a man and a woman sitting at the desk. The man was calling me over. I got my height checked and then he told me to sit down. I saw a machine to check eye vision and a blood pressure machine. Well I see the blood pressure machine and I'm looking through it because I thought it was the eye machine. I literally placed my head face to face with the blood pressure machine and peering through it. I then said in Chinese, "Should I wear my glasses? My vision is bad." The guy looked at me like what in the world is this girl talking about? Cala was laughing so hard and the lady next to me goes no no! This is the vision machine..oh my goodness..I started cracking up! I could not believe I would mistake a blood pressure machine as the vision machine. This black guy sitting next to me goes no..this is the blood pressure machine. Wow...then I'm checking my blood pressure but Cala and I can't stop laughing. I'm laughing so hard that my blood pressure was too high LOL The man yells at me "Stop laughing! I have to retake it again." Oh my..I was trying so hard not to laugh and the lady next to me says, "Take it easy!" LOL I go yeah my mom tells me that all the time and she goes oh now you're comparing me to your mother lol But she was joking and she was really nice but the man did not find this funny at all.

Then I go to the vision machine. I had to say up, down, left, or right but I couldn't remember the symbols for the directions. For example, 山 was up. So I kept looking out of the machine to the direction sheet and the lady told me not to look away. Cala later tells me that I was moving my fingers and not really saying a direction lol

So yeah..who knew that a trip to the clinic can be so entertaining? Everytime Cala and I talk about the clinic trip, we laugh so hard that we can't stop and my stomach seriously hurts from laughing so hard. Oh my..obviously I'm not adjusting to the time zone yet.

-Chihchat