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Waiting Room Observations

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Meridian, Idaho

I was sitting in a doctor’s office yesterday.

Waiting… Waiting… And…

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It wasn’t really that long, and I actually don’t mind waiting, especially in hospitals or airports. The people watching is simply amazing!

Before I talk about what I observed, here’s a quote I love from Rich’s stepfather that’s appropriate for this situation:

We spend a third of our lives sleeping,

We spend a third of our lives working.

And a third of our lives are spent waiting.

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Too true. 🙂

Here are my random observations from about 30 minutes of waiting room observations…

  1. President Obama is mentioned a lot, and most of the comments are not favorable either about him or Obamacare.
  2. The older the commentator, the fouler the language used to describe the president. (One 80+ year old man called POTUS “a lying b*st*rd”, not just once but multiple times to whoever would listen and/or not listen.
  3. And, most important to me, I’m not ready to go back to work at a place where I’d have to make chit chat with coworkers.

The two receptionists in front of me and two more behind me solved all the world’s problems while they were working.

Topics ranged from how to care for rose bushes to “Should I move for a new job even though I’d be hundreds of miles from my son because he lives with his mother–aka my ex-wife.”

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Maybe, according to the above, everything would be okay for the child if the dad has a garden for his son to play in. 🙂

It’s not that I don’t want to hear others’ opinions and stories. It’s that I’m scared to death that I’ll be expected to remember them from one day to the next.

And because I have a bad case of CRS (can’t rmember sh*t), I’d live in fear everyday that I’d have to try to remember things like a coworker’s special Christmas gift for her granddaughter. And I’d be the office misfit because I couldn’t…

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8 thoughts on “Waiting Room Observations”

  1. Good one!

    I have visited Andrea and Renie at the high school twice and ALWAYS go in the back door! Totally get #3!

    1. Need to borrow Harry Potter’s invisible cloak for your next visit? 🙂

  2. I love the 1/3 description of time! Wow. You had quite the vitriolic co-patients. I have only heard someone gripe like that only once in all the times I have been waiting for doctor’s appointments. I also did not hear prolonged conversations either. I am not sure if it is a Kaiser thing or a So-Cal thing, but it is generally a lot quieter. Maybe, it is because everyone is too busy on their phones to pay attention to anyone else….

    1. Joe Solaegui used to say that all the time about the law of 1/3’s. Maybe the vitriolic comments had to do with the ages of the patients, Joanne. That and the fact that they weren’t using cell phones. 🙂

  3. My favorite pastime when I worked downtown Juneau, was to walk down to the docks on my lunch break and listen to the tourist fight. With three ships docked at once, the population downtown would explode to over 3,000 people.
    It was usually the husband, bitching to the wife that she spent too much on souvenirs. My favorite was the couple who were arguing about what altitude Juneau was. Mount Roberts, which rises up behind the city of Juneau is pretty impressive and they thought they were waaaayyyy up high. A nice gentleman in their group pointed to the ship they just sailed in on and reminded them that they were at sea level!

    1. OMG! Sharon, I laughed out loud when I read your story. I can just picture it in my mind. Hilarious! 🙂

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