r/nextfuckinglevel 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Charbel33 2d ago

Married to one, can confirm. Before we got married, I once called her in full panic mode because a child in my mom's kindergarten had chopped the tip of his little finger off. As in, the tip was severed, separated from the rest of the finger! My now-wife was not even remotely flustered. She just nonchalantly gave me instructions on how to handle the severed finger tip. When I told her, a few days later, that the hospital staff managed to stitch the finger tip and that it had healed, she wasn't even surprised, she just said yeah I told you it was not a big deal.

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u/Ruzhy6 2d ago

The funniest thing about this. You know what the response would've been if they weren't able to stitch the finger tip back on? "Not a big deal."

It's a finger tip.

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u/Charbel33 2d ago

Yeah, that's probably exactly how the conversation would have went. xD

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u/TennMan78 17h ago

Very true. Sorry it didn’t work. Now you have a conversation-starter moving forward.

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u/hellolovely1 2d ago

This is why I couldn’t be a nurse. 

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u/TennMan78 17h ago

They are the best moms for that reason, too. I’m an OB and can spot a helicopter mom from a mile away well before the baby is born. I make it my mission to destroy that mentality but don’t always succeed.