[Rick V]

The night before my dad went in for his quad bypass the anesthesiologist came into his room and was explaining the procedure and I could tell dad was getting a little uncomfortable with the situation, so I decided to break the tension. I told the woman it sounded like dad was going to be in a chemically induced hypnotic state, and she said that was very close to the truth. I then proceeded to make the request that after dads surgery that he was to cluck like a chicken anytime he heard the word bulldozer. It was a big laugh and when she left she wrote bulldozer on his chalkboard.
Dad had his surgery the next day and he was in recovery and they had just pulled the breathing tube out when the nurse came out and got my mom and I. We walked into the room and dad was still a good bit out of it but motioned for me to come over to the bed. I leaned over so I could hear what he was trying to say and that old SOB was clucking like a chicken. He went under with that thought and kept it until he could hit me with it. He came home a few days later to find rubber chickens stuffed in his things through out the house.