What's the funniest or cringiest thing that a parent or guardian ever asked while in the exam room with you?

It could be a lame joke, a legit question, or an off the cuff comment. It could be pertaining to your exam, your health status, or something entirely unrelated.

When my wife was in the hospital recovering fro a brain injury, she initially had memory and speech aphasia problems. Her mother and I were in the room when the doc came in and started asking her questions: what state are you in, what city, who's the president etc. She didn't do very well answering him. Then he held up a pen ane asked her what it was. She intently looked at it and it was obvious she was struggling trying to find the right word. Her mother was leaning forward in a coaxing/encouraging manner, very intense and finally blurted out "It's a pen!" Both the doc and I looked at her a bit amused and she sort of blushed. Then the doc took off his shoe and held it up - and again my wife couldnt come up with the word. Her mother couldn't hold back and blurted out "it's a shoe" - seemingly proud that she knew what it was. This time the doc frowned a bit at her -and looked at me - I escorted my MIL out of the room whie the doc finished.

Reminded me of the scene in My Cousin Vinny where he is questioning the little old lady with coke-bottle glasses and asks her how many fingers he's holding up. The judge blurts outs "Let the record show he is holding up two fingers".

Any father who has never asked a doctor a foolish or stupid question does not know what it is to be a father. Jaja

Several things came out of my dad, especially after the age of ten. The typical ones are, if the penis big for your age, doctor? or are they already hanging up on him? Brides are going to rain down on him. To name a few

It's a tie for the two cringiest things my mom said.

At my exam on my 14th birthday, while I was lying on the table, and the doctor had pulled my undies down to above my knees, he said that I had finally just started puberty. My mom asked, "How can you tell? He still looks like a little boy down there." So the doctor had to pull an orchidometer out of the drawer and demonstrate to her that my testicles were the same size as the bead marked with a 5, which meant puberty had started.

At my exam just after my 15th birthday, in the exact same position, the doctor pointed out that I had basically adult sized testicles and a small bit of pubic hair around the base of my penis. My mom asked, "When will his pee pee start growing, too?" The doctor explained that my penis actually had grown, but since I had gained so much weight, some of its length was being obsured by fat. He then stretched it out while pressing the fat pad down to the bone, and explained that stretching it like that was a good indicator of how long my penis was fully erect. At that point, I was probably only 4 inches, but it was enough to stop her questions.

Oh man @spbb I would have died if my mom said something like that when I was 14 and 15!

My mom asked, "How can you tell? He still looks like a little boy down there."

@spbb I feel your pain.

I didn't really hit puberty until very late too. In my case, it wasn't my mother, but the doctor who said it.

At 11 or 12 the doctor told my mother that he was concerned about my development and recommended that I be put into a developmental study for boys who were "late bloomers."

I wasn't there for the conversation - the doctor had me get dressed and the nurse took me back to the waiting room, but my mother told me about it on the ride home. She said that the doctor was concerned because my penis (that was like the second time I ever heard her call it that) was not growing like it should and that he was going to help, and that I was be going to see him for appointments more often (which I didn't mind at the time because Dr Danny was nice and he had a cool fish tank, and gave out Tootsie-Pops after the appointment if you didn't cry). Later at one of those appointments I heard the doctor telling the nurse that developmentally I was at the level of a 5 year old.

At my exam on my 14th birthday, while I was lying on the table, and the doctor had pulled my undies down to above my knees, he said that I had finally just started puberty. My mom asked, "How can you tell? He still looks like a little boy down there."

@spbb If only you would’ve had the frame of mind - or balls - to look at your mom and said: “Yeah, but the girls at school LOVE it!!” 😀😀😀

Yeah, but the girls at school LOVE it!!

Not in any universe I can imagine. I was completely asexual at that age -- everyone assumed that I just wasn't in to girls "yet." But when the hormones finally kicked in, I was a total Kinsey 6. Gold star gay.

I also had no idea what other boys my age looked like down there. Nobody took showers after gym class. Those annual well child exams and the comments from my pediatrician and my mom were the only insight I had into how far behind I was.

My age 14 physical. My doctor instructed me to remove my underwear and said "I need to check the plumbing, young man" After it was all said and done she put her hand on my shoulder looked me in the eye and said. "Don't worry, this isn't my first rodeo and everything is 100 percent normal. You are capable of having kids one day,. Good job, buddy."