Weighing In

I am five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly plump. After I had a minor accident, my mother accompanied me to the emergency room.

The ER nurse asked for my height and weight, and I blurted out, “Five-foot-eight, 125 pounds.”

While the nurse pondered over this information, my mother leaned over to me.

“Sweetheart,” she gently chided, “this is a hospital, not the Internet.”

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