Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Exam Room Repairs

My first goal in getting the lab and medical offices ready for daily use is repairing the exam room. Yesterday morning I meant to enlist Evie's help, and possibly Torbjorn's, but could find neither of them. While I was looking, minion GIR offered assistance.

After explaining what I wanted done, I got to work on the filing system and he found a couple of other minions to help, assuring me that the work would be finished by the end of the day. I was impressed, to say the least.

By four o'clock, the construction noises had stopped and GIR bounced into my office to inform me that the exam room was finished. He blindfolded me, led me in, and did a drumroll on his chassis before letting me see. The results were... not what I expected.

*I've included a transcription of the following conversation, taken from Iron John's covert minion-surveillance system*

GIR: You like?
Dr. F: Um...
GIR: It's green!
Dr. F: I asked you to put in gray linoleum.
GIR: Green is better.
Dr. F: It's shag carpeting.
GIR: Yes!
Dr. F: You've got to take out the carpet.
GIR: (silent)
Dr. F: And I said the walls needed to be repainted to cover the scorch marks.
GIR: No, we had to keep the scorch marks. Very chic.
Dr. F: That is not acceptable. You really must take out the carpet and paint the walls.
GIR: TV time!
(sound of door opening and shutting)
Dr. F: GIR! Come back!
(pause, followed by a sigh)
Dr. F: I've gotta say, I do rather like the skylight, though.

1 comment:

Debbie said...

It was the Scary Monkey show!