New Car Smell
Aug. 18th, 2009 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was at the gynecologist's this morning, await my biopsy. On a tray next to the table was a bottle of what looked like canned air or maybe WD40. Had the red straw sticking out of it. I picked it up & saw it was HurriCaine, a topical anaesthetic.
Nothing too shocking there, right. I kept reading.
'Original Wild Cherry Flavor'.
Yeah, I fucking died. The doctor & his assistant came in & all I could do was gasp, "Original Wild Cherry!" while pointing at the can. The doctor picks it up, reads it & then says, "Why would it need to be wild cherry flavored if we're spraying it into your vagina?" (My gynecologist is from Africa, & has this great British accent, so he sounded so deadpan & puzzled...)
I couldn't help myself, so I tell him, "Could be worse, could be New Car Smell!"
In case anyone hasn't figured it out, it's a topical benzocaine used in dental offices. It took the doctor a couple of minutes to read the rest of the can. He's like, "Ohhh, this is dental anaesthetic!"
Then as I'm laying there w/my feet up in the stirrups, right before he spritzes me w/the stuff, he asks, innocently, "Does your husband like cherry flavor?"
OMFG!!! I was in tears. So now all day, all I can think about is Original Wild Cherry.
Nothing too shocking there, right. I kept reading.
'Original Wild Cherry Flavor'.
Yeah, I fucking died. The doctor & his assistant came in & all I could do was gasp, "Original Wild Cherry!" while pointing at the can. The doctor picks it up, reads it & then says, "Why would it need to be wild cherry flavored if we're spraying it into your vagina?" (My gynecologist is from Africa, & has this great British accent, so he sounded so deadpan & puzzled...)
I couldn't help myself, so I tell him, "Could be worse, could be New Car Smell!"
In case anyone hasn't figured it out, it's a topical benzocaine used in dental offices. It took the doctor a couple of minutes to read the rest of the can. He's like, "Ohhh, this is dental anaesthetic!"
Then as I'm laying there w/my feet up in the stirrups, right before he spritzes me w/the stuff, he asks, innocently, "Does your husband like cherry flavor?"
OMFG!!! I was in tears. So now all day, all I can think about is Original Wild Cherry.
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Date: 2009-08-18 11:45 pm (UTC)New Car Smell
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