How to Get Your Mom to Leave Your Appointment

"There was no doing anything else, but try to plumsily rectify the situation and stop what we were doing," he says. "So I'm trying to sort of softly push her toward leaving,. which takes another few minutes." The next day she agrees to leave my appointment with an orthopedist. She's like, well, aren't you going to walk me out or anything? And I was like, no. You see what's happening here?" He calls his mom in New Jersey for help: "She is like a three second pregnant pause on the other end of the phone"