My wife just showed me a pair of black socks she purchased yesterday, they had L & R printed in white on the soles. I thought that our education system was getting pretty bad but ?. Is there any truth in the rumour that all babies born in the UK in future will have their feet tattooed with L & R respectively, just in case of a disastrous mismatch !!!!!!!!!!! :-) Don
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Due to clothes washer magic it is interesting to note how the R's disappear to be replaced by L's when they reach the drawer.
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Not a new idea. SWMBO used to have knickers with C&A on the label...
Even if there is no truth in that, it is obviously needed
I worked for C&A from 1969 to 1972 and that was a well established joke back then!
Bob
I think my primary school teacher who supervised country dancing once a week would have liked me to have shoes with L & R on the toes!
Glad you posted that - otherwise I would have had to.
That one bothered me when I first saw it, how come Mr Morrison didn't seem to spot it himself for a while or bring it up with the specialist?
Because it was not marked L or R?
Adam
I was explaining the LR concept to my 4 year old grandson the other day. I could tell by his expression that, although he was interested, he didn't really see why he needed to know that.
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His wife spotted it as soon as she took off the sock
In an operating theatre (I suspect not used as such, as I was fully clothed and had just a burnt hand) there was a big poster on the wall, full colour and good quality, with details of L and R legs and the amputation thereof - now that is worrying!
In my local real ale pub, a bit of a rough diamond would come in sometimes and start talking about his sex life (he didn't believe in love).
One day, he got on the subject of the size of his manhood and I just had to turn to him and say "look, my underpants have a label on them that says 'small' and that is at the back". The whole bar started laughing :-)
Dave
Pah, I was sat in a ward waiting to be taken for an angiogram when a nurse, all business and fully clipboarded, came marching up to me, felt tip marker in hand and demanded to know, "....which leg are we amputating this morning?". If she'd had an angle grinder too I'd have been _really_ upset.
At least they ask! I ended up with several felt tip arrows all round my eye; it must have looked bizarre but they'd cleaned them all off by the time I woke up .-)
Bad enough when conscious, but...!
I went to day surgery to have cyst removed from my back. Reading the admission clerk's log upside down (as one does) I could see that against my name it said 'vasectomy'. I ventured that although not medically trained, I didn't think that this was the name for having a cyst removed. The lady - of mature years - was hugely embarrassed and after a lengthy delay the right procedure was done. But it's a bit worrying to think what might have happened had I been under a GA.
Well I dunno... according to the link "The hearing heard that Mr Griffiths also failed to spot his error at two later check-ups."
David
Better arrows then them taking out the wrong eye (shudder).
When I had surgery on my left large toe (*), the surgeon visited me beforehand and drew a large felt-tip arrow on my foot pointing at the relevant toe.
(* I have Dupuytrens contracture.)
the clue is in the shoe - expect he just took the whole false leg off rather than the shoe.... JimK
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