Jokes from a Neurosurgeon

I met Ann and Spiros through Nick and Reny. Ann is an attorney, Spiros is a neurosurgeon and they both possess a sense of humour that has me (and everyone else who happens to be present) doubled over in laughter more often than not. At Sunday brunch at a Vietnamese restaurant a couple of months ago (by the way, this is got to be one of the best dining deals in ANY of the boroughs – 5 of us ate copious amounts of food for only $80 total), I remember laughing non-stop as Spiros recounted the ingenuity of a group of smart but mischievous medical residents (he was, of course, one of them) who were constantly raising the stakes with a series of creative practical jokes.

Once, they took every single pair of pants one their friends owned and had them all hemmed so they were 2 – 3 inches too short. Another time, they had neon under car lighting installed on the undercarriage of someone else’s car. The owner of the newly “accessorized” vehicle drove around for months, having no idea his car was glowing purple each and every night.

So, at a dinner party the other night when Spiros began passing around his iPhone, saying “Check this photo out!”, I figured it would probably be something pretty funny.

But remember, Spiros is also a neurosurgeon, so when Nick cocked his head to the side while looking at the photo and said “where’s the rest of this guy’s head?”, I quickly abandoned my place in the photo-viewing queue.