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Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: SER on July 31, 2002, 05:36:27 PM

Man, 103, Told to Bring Parents for Eye Test
Wed Jul 31,12:19 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - British pensioner Joseph Dickinson, 103, had a shock when his local hospital called him in for an eye test and told him to bring his parents.

  "I must be getting younger, in fact much younger," he told his local paper, the Hartlepool Mail.

Joseph Dickinson was born in 1899, but because the hospital computer only read the last two digits it mistook his age as just three years old.

"It was a clerical error," a spokesman for City Hospitals Sunderland told Reuters by telephone from northern England on Tuesday.

"I think he was quite amused when he was explaining to the consultant at the hospital why he couldn\'t bring his mother and father with him."

:laughing:

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Bladez on July 31, 2002, 05:45:27 PM

:laughing: that would have to be a little embarassing on both sides.

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: fastson on July 31, 2002, 06:47:32 PM

Were they running Windows by any chance? ;)

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Seraphim Pride on July 31, 2002, 06:56:41 PM

probably Win ME that\'s funny though

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: SonyFan on July 31, 2002, 07:32:09 PM

Oh no! Y2K finally struck... this is only the begining! Go buy your shotguns and canned meat! We\'re all doomed!


:rolleyes:

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on July 31, 2002, 07:34:07 PM

they warned us about Y2K,

IT\'S TAKEN OVER!

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: SER on July 31, 2002, 09:27:07 PM

Quote

I think he was quite amused when he was explaining to the consultant at the hospital why he couldn\'t bring his mother and father with him.

Probably turned on too. :laughing:

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Titan on August 01, 2002, 10:58:37 AM

That is pretty messed up. But funny :laughing:

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Cerberus on August 01, 2002, 11:03:15 AM

What are they doing sending the appointment to HIM if he\'s supposed to be only three years old? Surely it would at least be addressed "To the parents of.....". And if that WAS what was on the envelope, wasn\'t he committing an offence by opening a letter that WASN\'T addressed to him.

Mind you, I guess that he could argue that he is only three years old.

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Titan on August 01, 2002, 11:32:38 AM

Maybe it was a joke?

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Cerberus on August 01, 2002, 11:59:13 AM

Maybe, mabe not.

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Titan on August 01, 2002, 12:02:21 PM

It\'s just a theory. Probably wasn\'t.

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: kirath on August 01, 2002, 01:37:33 PM

He should have been creative, gone dug up and parents and brought them into the hospital.  What does it matter man, your 103 no one is gonna give you a hard time!

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: Titan on August 01, 2002, 02:25:03 PM

What if they were cremated :confused:

Title: 103 year old needs parents for eye test
Post by: kirath on August 01, 2002, 04:22:58 PM

Dump some dirt on the counter and appologize for their inability to talk.