𝔸t a medical convention, a male doctor and a female doctor start eyeing each other. The male doctor asks her to dinner and she accepts.
As they sit down in the restaurant, she excuses herself to go and wash her hands. After dinner, one thing leads to another and they end up in her hotel bedroom.
Just as things get hot, the lady doctor interrupts and says she has to go and wash her hands. When she comes back they go at it again. Afterwards, she gets up and says she is going to wash her hands.
As she comes back the male doctor says, "I bet you are a surgeon". She confirms and asks how he knew. "Easy, you're always washing your hands."
She then says, "I bet you're an anaesthesiologist."
Male doctor: "Wow, how did you guess?"
Female doctor: "I didn't feel a thing."
Two things to keep in mind here. First, the use of the preposition "at". Remember that we use it to position someone or something, and that it's small and precise. "At a medical convention" places the two doctors at the event. We know that they're at the convention centre. It's like saying "at home". Grammatically, that's precise. Your home is a point, small and precise. Smaller and more precise than "in the kitchen" which, grammatically, is bigger and less precise. Secondly, the word "afterwards". You can't use "after", here, because "after" needs to be followed by something: after what?
As they sit down in the restaurant, she excuses herself to go and wash her hands. After dinner, one thing leads to another and they end up in her hotel bedroom.
Just as things get hot, the lady doctor interrupts and says she has to go and wash her hands. When she comes back they go at it again. Afterwards, she gets up and says she is going to wash her hands.
As she comes back the male doctor says, "I bet you are a surgeon". She confirms and asks how he knew. "Easy, you're always washing your hands."
She then says, "I bet you're an anaesthesiologist."
Male doctor: "Wow, how did you guess?"
Female doctor: "I didn't feel a thing."
Two things to keep in mind here. First, the use of the preposition "at". Remember that we use it to position someone or something, and that it's small and precise. "At a medical convention" places the two doctors at the event. We know that they're at the convention centre. It's like saying "at home". Grammatically, that's precise. Your home is a point, small and precise. Smaller and more precise than "in the kitchen" which, grammatically, is bigger and less precise. Secondly, the word "afterwards". You can't use "after", here, because "after" needs to be followed by something: after what?
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