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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / My Stomach Hurts From Laughing So Hard!

My Stomach Hurts From Laughing So Hard!

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

Target Gift CardsDear readers, I have such a funny story to tell you today. I hope you get as good a laugh out of it as my husband and I did.

Laughter is, after all, one of the healthiest things anyone can do, so I’m sharing this story with all of you in the hope that it adds a boost of wellness to your day!

So here’s what happened ….

This morning, as I was getting ready to leave my dentist’s office after a 9am appointment, the receptionist hands me an envelope with my name on it.  She told me the day before over the phone that it was a gift card which was the office’s way of saying “thank you” for some referrals I’ve sent their way in recent months.

Very nice.  A classy touch, I thought to myself.

So, I get in my car and drive home.  I didn’t open the envelope because it just didn’t cross my mind to do so at that moment.

Boy, am I glad I waited!

After I arrive home, I go into the house and start putting my keys, etc on the kitchen table and notice the envelope again.

I thought it would be nice to share this with my husband, so I walk into his office and tell him about the gift card and begin to open the envelope so we can be surprised and delighted together.

I’m thinking it must be movie tickets or a certificate to a local restaurant or something like that which my husband and I can share on an evening out.

You can imagine my shock and surprise when I pull out the gift card and it is none other than a gift card to (drum roll please) …

DUNKIN’ DONUTS!!!!!

I am not making this up.

For the first few seconds, my husband and I were too stunned to say anything.  We just stared at each other with our jaws agape.

And then, we started to laugh, and laugh, and LAUGH!

Oh my, that was so funny.  A dentist giving a gift card to Dunkin’ Donuts!  The irony of it is almost too much to comprehend!

After we finally stopped laughing many, many minutes later, I finally gasped enough air to ask my husband, “What am I going to do with this?  I don’t eat donuts and I don’t drink coffee?”

Always my knight in shining armor, hubby chimed in that Dunkin’ Donuts now shares space with Baskin Robbins, so he can take the kids out for ice cream with it.

Wonderful, I thought.  Ice cream for the kids.  What a way to promote those cavities (and some repeat business)!

 

Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. maria torres

    May 11, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    jk

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  2. maria torres

    May 11, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    ur wack dnt post any more stories

    Reply
  3. Diann

    Apr 29, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    When I was a kid, there was always a bowl of candy (usually lollipops) at the dentist’s office we children could take a piece or two from, for later.

    I guess my old dentist was simply trying to insure repeat business.

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  4. Nickole @SavvyTeasandHerbs.com

    Apr 24, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    I always wondered about sealants even though we have opted out of them for our children and go to a dentist who does not do them on a regular basis, or flouride, and also lets us opt out of x-rays. So thanks for your input on the sealants, Sarah!

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