Somebody’s Not Listening

(I am leaving the small medical clinic where I work in the laboratory. A couple enters the doors looking lost.)

Me: “Can I help you?”

Woman: “We’re trying to find the, ‘er-ology’ clinic?”

Me: “Ah urology. That’s on the second floor, so if you go up the elevator–”

Man: *interrupting* “Wait, wait! There it is, right there!” (He points to a door that says ‘Ear, Nose, and Throat’.)

Me: “Well, actually that’s the door for Ear, Nose–”

Man: *interrupting again* “Yeah! Ears. Like Ear-ology!”

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