Our pediatrician always had a healthy waiting room and a sick
waiting room. That was cruel. The two rooms were connected but were L shaped.
The sick people would sit wherever in their room, but the healthy ones would
all congregate at the far end of their room, as far away from the germs as
possible, like boys at a Junior High dance. When you were in the sick side,
you’d hate it when a healthy person got called in to see the doctor. “Hey, why
you taking that healthy person in? We’re dying over here.” Eventually you would
lose hope, paranoia would set in, and you’d start having thoughts like,
“There’s no hope for us in our room. That’s why they’re taking the healthy kids
first.” Can we please end this horrid practice of separate waiting rooms?
Having said that, I wouldn’t mind seeing sick and healthy
waiting rooms at the license bureau. You wait a long time there and some of
those people are pretty sick looking.
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