September 3, 2011

Slumming It

(http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/dec/09/column-why-indian-slums-are-not-places-of-hopelessness.htm)


One time, I was monitoring a patient as she waited for a procedure. One of our phlebotomists came in, and we talked.


Phleb: What high school did you go to?
Me: Clearfield.
70 something-year-old Patient: Slumming it at Clearfield, huh?


WHAT?! What kind of 70-something white female living in Utah County knows what the phrase slumming it means, let alone uses it (accurately) to describe my high school in the little-known city of Clearfield?


An awesome one, that's who. 



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