• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    A guy is in his hospital bed suffering. Things are about to get worse.

    A woman comes in. She’s wearing a lab coat and she has a clipboard. She’s jaunty. “And how are we today?”

    “I don’t know how we feel. I feel awful. How do you feel? And who are you?”

    "Good-good-good. She turns her clipboard around for a moment to show him “See these highlighted parts?” She turns it back around to face her. She points - "That’s your prognosis. “And these…” She points quickly and flips the page. She ends up pointing nine times. “Are the components of your bill.”

    “Who are you?”

    “Do ya know how you can possibly greatly reduce your bill by removing some components? I see here I see here without component deduction that your bill’s gonna come to more than one point one mil. That’s significant.”

    “Who are you?”

    “You can also possibly get a better prognosis too. If you become eligible - we got a world-renown specialist who can fly in from the Mayo Clinic. No charge to you.”

    “Who are you?”

    “I’m rep for the entertainment division of the hospital.”

    “The what?”

    “The entertainment division of the hospital. I guess I was misinformed and you didn’t already know about your opportunity to become part of the reality tv series we are going to be filming…”