My lab tech and I just had a laugh over my overly-jargon-filled order:
"Let's get the U/A, then I'll do the DRE, then we'll get a PSA ASAP, OK?"
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...for a while. Between military acronyms and medical abbreviations, I could write a whole paragraph that had no real nouns -
DEROS - date of estimated return from overseas
PCS - permanent change of station
TDY - temporary duty
AFSC - Air Force specialty code
MWR - Morale, Welfare and Recreation
The Navy is the master of acronyms.
And then there’s always SNAFU and FUBAR. And JANAFU.
Backatcha
I work in IT - one time I left a phone message for an out-of-state co-worker, filled with acronyms. His elderly father lived with him and said, "Son, some drunk lady called for you, she left you a message". After my coworker listened to the message he said, "Dad, that's a work call, she's not drunk". The father said, WELL, SHE SOUNDS DRUNK TO ME.
About a month later I received an Skype IM from that coworker saying Dad says a drunk lady called....WAS THAT YOU? I replied NO, I DID NOT CALL YOU AND I AM NOT DRUNK! A while later he IM'd me again saying, THAT WAS A FRIEND OF MINE IN MICHIGAN......SHE REALLY *WAS* DRUNK.
