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Feeling Elderly

26 February, 2010
Posted in: Ireland

I took the Princess to see the doctor the other day. The doctor was a lovely woman maybe ten years younger than me. “Hello” she said to us holding out her hand “I’m Deirdre.” Not Dr X? Not even a surname, for God’s sake? I am an island of formality adrift in an informal world.

I will be 41 next month, I think you can tell.

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  1. Beth Fish says

    26 February, 2010 at 22:31

    I love that, actually. My major pet peeve is “Hello, Beth, I’m Dr. Jones.” I figure either I am Mrs. Bupkiss and you are Dr. Jones, or if I am Beth then at the very least you should be Dr. Amanda Jones.

    Well, not you personally, obviously. Your name isn’t Amanda.

  2. belgianwaffle says

    26 February, 2010 at 23:36

    I quite like the I am Dr. Jones and you are Mrs. Smith model. I do agree though that I am Dr. Jones and you are Amanda is quite wrong. Especially since, as you point out, neither of us is called Amanda.

  3. queenofparks says

    28 February, 2010 at 12:18

    What would you think of ‘Dr Deirdre’? I wonder if your friend Pixie introduces herself to her patients as such.

  4. Sarah says

    1 March, 2010 at 18:37

    Re Dr Pixie: That’s what the narrator on Embarrassing Bodies calls her.

    I have spent all afternoon being called Mrs MyName by my dentist. He is a student and is referred to by his first name, his senior clinician is Dr HerName. I find it both polite and professional.

  5. Sarah says

    1 March, 2010 at 18:38

    I feel I should add I am not 41.

  6. pog says

    2 March, 2010 at 14:23

    You mere slip of a lass.
    luv,
    Great Aunt Pog x

  7. belgianwaffle says

    4 March, 2010 at 22:47

    Sarah, almost nobody is.

    How lovely to see you my favourite great aunt..

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