<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

So, I'm in my clinical phase of Physician Assistant school, which means that I spend anywhere from 2 - 6 weeks with one doctor and then switch to a new one.  This means that I have to make a ton of good impressions within a short span of time.  

Well, I was doing my first day with an older doctor who was planning on retiring soon, so I started to ask him questions about where he was going to go after he finished working.  He relayed to me that he was moving to Florida and that he had already put an offer on a house within a retirement community.  When he was finished with his story this exchange occured:

Me:  "That sounds great, are you taking your wife with you?"

Him:  "My wife has been dead for six months."

Internally I am cursing my terrible luck.  Later I told people who had been here longer about the exchange and they would say things like, "oh, no one told you?"  or "I meant to tell you that."

A little late, jerks.
<bot>: Tried to get to know my preceptor, ask him about his recently deceased wife on my first day working with him.