The End of Rectal Thermometer
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Dr. Wells wakes up with an icepad on his naked butt as he hears a tow truck beeping in reverse to hook up his beloved BMW, "Oh, no, no, no, not today!" Mike peaks his head out the curtains and pushes his window up to make a final plea to the towman, "Please, can you come back tomorrow instead, I can give you this $300 watch." The towman yells back he is on a tight schedule and there is nothing he can do.
Mike walks over to his full length mirror to look at his bruised buttocks. Enid really did a number on him black, brown, blue, purple bruising mixed with a little yellow, and all while not tearing the skin even slightly. At first, he feels shame at the thought of calling Enid, she has already helped him more than any human being deserves to be helped. Then it hits him like a Goddess from the sky electrocuting his butt, he misses her and needs to hear the sound of her voice.
"Hello???"
"Hi, Enid, guess what??? The Repo-man towed my car a week early. I know it's been a few hours since you saved my life, but I was wondering if you would be able to do me another favor and give me a ride to work?
Enid giggles, "I suppose I could, are you still living at your billing address or am I picking you up at a laundromat or public library?"
Mike laughs at his own indignity, "Yeah, still here for now. Don't hurry over too fast I am still trying to figure out how to dress myself without the fabric touching my butt!"
Enid smiles as she caresses the pink rubber protection on the back of her cellphone, "I wish you all the luck in the world in your quest, Good Sir."
Enid pulls up to Mike's house and her carhorn on her restored pink Volkswagen Bettle sounds like a the car is depressed and crying. Enid rolls her window down, " Awww, I think Herbeta feels bad for you. You and your little icepad. She wants me to turn the cooling device on in your seat, but I told her no that you are a grown man and can stand a little bit of pain."
Mike gently eases himself down on the carseat putting the icepad underneath him, "Tell, Herbeta I appreciate her concern. Forgive me for being so crude, but by any chance is Herbeta the daughter of Herbie? Because if she is I have to wonder where her 53 number is, did her mother have a prime number as well?
Enid lights up when she realizes Mike understands her movie reference, "Herbeta gets embarrassed when I talk about it but she was born without a number because her father decided to mate with another Beetle car that didn't race, think or communicate. Her mama was a pretty pink showroom car." Mike claps at Enid's creative explanation.
When the conversation begins to grow cold, Enid breaks the ice, "Can you do me a favor and open the ice chest beside you and grab me a rainbow DipNdots, get one for yourself too. There are scissors to open the bag."
Mike burrows his eyebrows in bewilderment, "Icecream in a bag, why I never!"
Enid throws back a swig of the tiny pebbles and sucks with contentment, "You take a taste and tell me this isn't the best treat you have ever had on your way to work."
Dr. Wells squeezes the bag and grapples the pebbles around his mouth and gives his verdict, "Hmmmm, unbelievably delicious, like a bowl of fruity pebbles in my mouth with extra cold milk."
Enid smiles with satisfaction, "I know, right! You should try the cotton candy...sooooo gooood."
Mike addresses the pink elephant sitting in the back seat of Enid's car, "Enid, you know you are the first woman to see me naked in 15 years since my wife left me?
Enid rocks her head back and forth as she stops at a traffic light and looks over at Mike with a bit of a condescending yet playful glance, "Let me guess, hims is still embawassed about it?"
"A little bit yeah. See, even with all the awkwardness women have with unwanted attention, you all know men think you are beautiful. My whole marriage my wife was only excited to undress me when she was trying to get pregnant. Try having an anxiety attack being a man thinking no woman in the world can ever find you anything other than adequate."
Enid grabs the wheel and shakes herself like she is a muppet, "Ok, ok, I will reveal womankinds secrets to how they feel about naked men to make you feel a tinsy bit better about your silly insecurities. I don't like to share overly private information about girl talk with my girlfriends, but if you guess right I will give you all the intimate details about what we say."
Mike is intrigued, "Guess what, right?"
"Ok, ok, a little game. You have five nurses who work for you, right? Three of the five nurses wanted to invite you to their exclusive nudist hideaway because they felt "very safe around you". Mike's eyebrow begins to twitch uncontrollably. "Fast forward a few months after that. The same five nurses discuss privately how things would be different if instead of Angela taking temperatures of us four nurses, if our Chief of Staff had to take all five of our temperatures rectally to keep his job. Same three nurses respond the same exact way as to the question about inviting you to the nudist resort. Riddle me this, which three nurses said yes and which said no?"
Mike smiles smugly, "Wow, this is so easy. All this talk about women being complicated and you throw a nice easy one over the plate and think I have no chance smacking it out of the park, you may as well admit it now, so you won't have to hear about how intimately I know you and your friends."
Enid rolls her eyes, "No, please, please tell me what we think, you will get extra bonus points if you explain why we said what we said."
"I will solve this by using my own simple man logic, thank you. Mary, definitely Mary. She has gone into exhausting graphic detail about all her most intimate bodily workings since each one of her three births. She is 100% secure in her relationship with her husband and sees me as a completely neutered medical professional."
Enid grips her wheel laughing, "No bonus points awarded for the neutered comment."
Mike continues, "Don't need them. Katie, 100%. You ladies may not have known this, but your nudist leader advertised your secret sanctuary and tried to recruit men, at one point I considered calling to see if I was eligible to join. I don't even need to get into details about whether she would mind having her temperature taken rectally."
Enid nods her head, "Very logical, Mike, and three?"
"Angela, of course. She is beyond comfortable with taking a man or woman's temperature rectally and she is glowing with pride and confidence about her weight loss and new figure."
Enid smiles, "not very specific, but yes Angie is all of those things."
Enid pulls into the hospital parking garage not saying a word for a full minute. Mike stares at her and asks, "Wellll?"
Enid grimaces, "Well what?"
Mike is squirming on his icepad, "Isn't there anything you want to say?"
Enid ponders carefully, "Oh yeah, my little game was I would tell you who said what if you guessed right. Eeeeeeeeeehhhhrrrr. buzzer, cue the sad tuba, you were wrong, no do overs, no gentleman honking any horns to tell you how many numbers you got right."
Enid is delighted to see her boss growing increasingly agitated, "I am not wrong, what I said makes perfect sense! Mary, Katie, and Angela!
Enid chuckles, "Ok, I won't ever answer who said what, but maybe on the drive home I will tell you what three of us nurses said about you without revealing names. That way you can ponder your error from the point of view of a woman's mind and words."