How to Try to Make Someone Hear What They Are Saying

I had a situation where, for work, I spent an entire week with the most unreasonable person I ever met. She was training me for a job, and I told people at the time that if she were a running coach she would have trained people to sprint faster by running along behind them and shoving them.

One day, during lunch, the TV in the cafeteria was showing a rerun of Beverly Hills 90210.

My trainer asked, “What show is this?”

I said, “Beverly Hills 90210.”

My trainer said, “No it’s not.”

I said, “Pretty sure it is.”

She said, “No, it’s something else. That’s Tori Spelling. What other shows was she on?”

“At that age, none. That’s 90210. See, that’s Shannen Doherty with her.”

The show went to commercial as I said that, allowing my trainer to say, “No it wasn’t.”

“Yes it was. It was Shannen Doherty.”

“No, it was some Chinese girl.”

“It was Shannen Doherty.”

She rolled her eyes. “No, Scott, it can’t be. Shannen Doherty isn’t Chinese.”

I may have said this before, but most kids watch Star Trek and think they’ll grow up to be like either Kirk or Spock. I’ve grown up to be like the computer Kirk destroyed by feeding it illogical nonsense until it blew up.

(That same trainer, during a different lunch, complained that she’d had a headache for a long time. I asked how long. She said a few days. I told her to go to a doctor. She said no need. She knew what caused the headache. She had fallen down earlier that week and hit her head, causing this days-long headache. I told her she needed to see a doctor. She said it wasn’t a big deal and she wished she’d never brought it up. The headache wasn’t that bad. She was bothered much more by the fact that the spot on her head where she had hit it was still soft and hurt when she poked it.

She demonstrated by poking it a couple times and saying “Ow.”)

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