There is an operation taking place in a hospital room. Four doctors are involved in the operation. A man walks into the room holding a set of golf clubs and the doctors angrily look at him.
A golfer holding a set of golf clubs is in a hospital and managed to walk into an operating room.
How did the golfer end up in a hospital room?
Mind if I cut through?
scene: an operating room description: There is an operation taking place in a hospital room. Four doctors are involved in the operation. A man walks into the room holding a set of golf clubs and the doctors angrily look at him. uncanny: A golfer holding a set of golf clubs is in a hospital and managed to walk into an operating room. entities: Surgery, Caddie. caption: Mind if I cut through?
Golfers sometimes cut through difficult to cross places to hit their ball as it lies, to save strokes. But here, the golfer is cutting through a very inappropriate place: an operating room. Furthermore, his "cut through" statement takes on a second meaning: it's as if he is asking if he can "cut through" the patient, as in: participate as a surgeon during the operation.