one of many tales from my medical days

One night, with nothing better to do, I was hanging around the ER. A man came in with a problem. Which was, he and his "girlfriend" (he said?) were messing with a vibrator. It had gotten lost and was lodged in his colon. Sure enough, the
X-ray revealed that to be true .
It had been there three days with no passage. The ER Doc called the surgeon on call, and the man was taken to surgery.
Being me, I had to go watch to see how the surgeon was going to handle it.(no pun intended)
The surgeon on call was of Middle Eastern decent.
Sparing you the details of the procedure, the surgeon took the foreign object and placed it in a dish to go to the pathologist for identification.....
Again, being me, I asked, "Doc, what are you going to do with that"?
He said, "This must go to the laboratory for identification". My retort was, "No, No,.... He told me before he was put under, all he wanted was for you to change the batteries".
The Doc who was passing gas fell off his stool laughing. The Nurses and Techs all cracked up, but, the poor surgeon had a puzzled look on his face. "What?, batteries?, I am not understanding this", he said, "this must go to the laboratory".
Poor guy never did get it...even though everyone else was falling all over the place.

Walt