My husband: “I’m sending you a link, and despite what the subject line says, you have to watch it all the way through.”
Me: “Uh oh. On a scale of 0-10, where does it fall on The Dark Side Of The Internet?”
My husband: “6.”
Me: “What?! That’s high. I don’t want to watch that.”
My husband: “That’s not high. If 0 is as pure as the driven snow, and 10 is the deepest, blackest pits of hell, then 6 isn’t that bad.”
Me: “Oh, OK. I guess that would only be a little bit above 50%. I was just relating it to my pain scale; if I have a 6 pain level, that’s really high.”
My husband: “True.”
Me (the language major in me dying a little as I said this): “I guess we need better calibration between our scales.”
When you say “your pain scale,” do you mean the moderately confusing one they present at the hospital or Allie Brosh’s (I think more accurate) one: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html ? I keep meaning to print out hers and take it with me to the hospital next time I know they’re going to ask.
I LOVE her pain scale! I keep meaning to laminate it and gift it to my fibro doctor.
Truthfully, I think I create a new pain scale every day-my perception of my illness tends to be rather fluid 😛
So did you watch it and just how high did it actually rank?
Oh, I’d say that the first, like, 4 minutes and 58 seconds was maybe an 8, but then the last few seconds revealed the joke and brought it down to a one or a zero. But it was dicey there for a while.