Sent Home from Med School

Remember those days in elementary school where they safety pinned notes home with you if you didn’t comply with the dress code or standards? Like the time I thought it was crazy hair day and had my mom put my hair in a hundred little pony tails all over my head, just to find out the occasion was actually the following Friday.  Really, was the note necessary? I guess by med school they forgo the note and send you home!

Well, after the doc left for class this morning, I wasn’t expecting to see him until lunchtime so I decide to sleep a little longer and enjoy my morning. Only 45 minutes later, I’m busted! He comes home and runs into the room to change. He grabs his white coat, which probably should have been ironed, and asks me which of three ties match the best with his pants and shirt.

So why isn't the dress pants and button up shirt he is already wearing enough for today?

I can’t help but ask him with a smirk on my face, “Did they send you home from med school?” His hasty, defensive yet jovial reply informs me that he CHOSE to come home and change because they are seeing actual patients today. 

Ok, so I’ll let him get away with it this time. But only because it makes my day every time I see him leave the house in his professional dress, mount his 1994 bright red Honda moped and ride off to school with his tie blowing behind him in the wind.