Sunday, August 19, 2012

Week Sixteen: Screeching Weasel - "(She Got) Electroshocked" - Bark Like a Dog

So back in 2004, I dated a psychiatrist for awhile.  He wasn't my psychiatrist or anything - that would be totally unethical.  In fact, I met him at Half Price Books.  He was still finishing up his rotations when I met him, but he has his own private practice now.

He would tell me the most bizarre stories about his patients.  At one hospital, where he did his rotations, they had a ping pong table for the patients to use in order to get a bit of exercise and recreation.

He was in charge of electroconvulsive therapy - formerly known as electroshock therapy - at this particular hospital.  He told me that he had to make certain that their motor skills were back to normal after he would administer these shocks.  So he would challenge some of his patients to a game of ping pong.

One lady accepted his ping pong challenge; however, he said that she would cluck and flap her arms like a chicken every time she would hit the ball - so he obviously determined that it wasn't quite time for her to leave the hospital just yet.  Every time I hear this song, I cannot help but think of the ping pong playing, clucking chicken lady!!



she got electroshock therapy
fifty thousand volts
way outta control
she got electroshock therapy
a hundred thousand volts
way outta control
and hey whaddya know
it wasn't much of a joke
she got electroshocked
she got electroshock therapy
half a million volts
way outta control
she got electroshock therapy
twenty million volts
and hey whaddya know
it was a bit of a jolt
way outta control
she got electroshocked
she got electroshock therapy
a hundred million volts
way outta control
she got electroshock therapy
eighty billion volts
way outta control
and hey whaddya know
it wasn't much of a joke
she got electroshock therapy
what a riot



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