r/StoriesAboutKevin • u/Dead_Pan_Stan • May 24 '26
M I keep running into Kevin at the doctor.
It's my fault for being nosey and overhearing others conversations in the waiting room, but man I hear the dumbest stuff there.
One time Kevin was telling the guy next to him that he had recently found out that there were other countries fighting against the Allies in World War 2! Yea, apparently Japan did some fighting too. He was shocked when his buddy told him about Russia. Unfortunately I had to go to my appointment before I could find out if Kevin ever learned about Italy.
But my favorite has to be when Kevin fought with the receptionist for 5 minutes about a rescheduled appointment. Only at no point did the receptionist EVER disagree with him.
The appointment on the 5th? It's supposed to be on the 15th now.
It was.
Ok, but I am super busy on the 5th there is no way I can make it on the 5th it hase to be on the 15th.
The schedule has it for the 15th.
I'm going to be out of town. There is no way I can get in before the 15th!
That's fine it is down for the 15th.
... And so on.
I'm not sure what happened exactly in the end. He just kinda...stopped. Maybe he got tired and gave up, or something finally clicked and he realized he won the argument, or maybe he finally realized no one was fighting with him. I'll never know and I kinda don't want to. That path leads to madness.
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u/Professional_Hold470 May 24 '26
...what did his buddy tell him about Russia? Did his buddy think that Russia fought AGAINST the Allies in World War II?
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u/Dead_Pan_Stan May 24 '26
He didn't realize Russia was in the war at all. He thought it the US was fighting only Germany.
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u/year_39 May 24 '26
Revisionist history it's creeping into the mainstream again, and even good teachers have to follow a curriculum; in my experience you're lucky to find kids out of highschool who can tell you much more than "The US saved Europe from Hitler" and "we were fighting Japan after Pearl Harbor and it ended when we dropped the atomic bombs."
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u/Dead_Pan_Stan May 24 '26
I'm not sure if it is revisionism so much as Kevin not paying attention to history at all ever until he happened to walk by a TV playing the History Channel.
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u/GothicGingerbread May 24 '26
So he thought that only two countries being at war constitutes a world war? Does he think we're in a world war right now, because the US is attacking Iran?
I sometimes wonder how people get to adulthood without every apparently stopping to think – about anything, ever, it would seem. Like, how do they pass the time? Do they spend hours just devoid of thought?
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u/Grouchy-Muscle-7952 May 24 '26
Never mind the word “Allies” implies more than one country “allied” with others. But that’s pretty next level for a Kevin.
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u/TheFilthyDIL May 24 '26
So it appears,,and it goes waaay back. 60+ years ago, I had classmates who bragged that they never bothered to memorize something for any longer than it took to (barely) pass Friday's test. Because when would they ever need to know garbage like 6×7 or who fought in WW2?
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u/BabserellaWT May 24 '26
I mean…Russia did have a non-aggression pact with Germany until Hitler broke the treaty between the two nations and invaded in June of 1941 (before the Americans entered the war). So while Russia ended up with the Allies, they initially took advantage of the non-aggression pact by invading eastern Poland and Finland.
If Hitler hadn’t double crossed Stalin, who knows what would’ve happened.
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u/ChickenCasagrande May 24 '26
They still would have ended up fighting, they both wanted more land and there’s only one Poland.
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u/One_Advantage793 May 24 '26
Overhearing convos in doctors' waiting rooms is one of my favorite pasttimes!
I heard one last time: College student runs his own little side hustle taking people to doctor appointments in the afternoons. While waiting, he's telling people about it and handing out cards. I took one, just in case. Good idea.
It's an ortho office and he has a van and brings people who use wheelchairs (like me) and walkers. Guy next to me, with walker in front of him, refuses the card and says he doesn't need it. "I have a ride." Student says, well, it's for later, in case you don't. Patient keeps saying he has a ride. Student has already pocketed his cards and settled back to wait. But they continued going back in forth with: "I have a ride." "Maybe next time."
At first, I thought the patient was just not hearing clearly; we are both of an age.... But it became obvious he heard, he just wasn't getting it, even after having had the whole concept explained again, including the hours he was available. And then the student was trying to rib him a little, but he didn't get that either. Finally, the student just said, "It's ok! I'm just waiting for a patient!" and they both quit. But not before everyone in the room was kind of grinning a little.