I recently had a similar conversation with an Emergency Room nurse.
I had arrived by ambulance at about 0400, and after I was stabilized and they were filling out all the forms required for admission, one of the questions was, “Have you been abused or neglected.” The question took me aback, as I had never been asked that question anytime in the past, and I didn’t know quite what she meant, but I had read somewhere about “Elderly Abuse,” and I do qualify as elderly, so I answered, as a joke, “I served four years in the Marine Corps, does that count?”
We both got a good laugh out of it.
Good answer...
I used to say that I was sane and had the papers to prove it.
I was referring to my ‘passing’ the tests for Submarine Service,
It took me a few years to realize that the test was not to determine the sanity of us but to prove ‘we’ were CRAZY enough to jump from a sound aircraft, sink a steel tube or swim for miles with far too much weight strapped to ones back.