Oh my gosh. Well, as people who know me understand, I like to chat and I like humor. I figure that the only way through a painful physical therapy session is to try to take my mind off of it by laughing and having conversations. Anyone would. This is NOT your puffy relaxing Swedish massage. It hurts. Sometimes, it hurts BAD. I am a person who has a lot of knots, old injuries and very tight places that need to be ironed out.
This therapist at my Chiro’s office has been a fairly reasonable conversationalist and tells funny stories, to get your mind off of the pain, until recently. Well. You know the “gun thing”, and then there is the “health insurance thing”, and then there is the “conspiracy theory thing” consisting of the belief system that we have a dictator for a president who was sent to us by evil people yada, yada yada… As luck would have it, it turns out that he is one of “those people” who have the conspiracy theory all worked out.
Yep. And this guy is as serious as a heart attack. Which is all the more scary. The more passionate he got about his rant, the harder he worked on pushing on those knotty places and almost bending me until I was breaking in two! Oh goodness me.
As I did not agree with him by responding “Hell yeah!”, and instead tried to take the middle-of-the-road approach, and be as neutral as possible, he seemed to take offense and got a bit angry sounding… Yeah, this tact does not work with some people. He really got revved up. It was on the scary side by that point and thank God the clock wound down for the session. Who knows if I would have been able to walk out of there had it gone on much longer!
The next day, I visited with my Chiro about this situation. He said that he and the other clinic owners would deal with this – kind of encourage the guy to not converse about politics, religion, etc., with the patients. In my mind, it was “Good luck with that. He will begin to harp on his constitutional rights of free speech!” Oh well. There will not be any more visits from ME to this guy. Nope.
It was also suggested that I view this video from Saturday Night Live whereby such situations could be handled in the future! Talk about hilarious. He said that I should bring Adele to my next visit! Hey, put this in your CD player!
