Another Trip to the Doctor's Office

 

Ahhh, going to the doctor’s office is usually interesting. Today didn’t disappoint. I was there for routine things, no biggie. 

First, I was walking through the parking lot and smiling and nodding at a lady who was passing by. We kept glancing at each other, and I was thinking, that looks like my friend's mom! but I’ve made faux pas before thinking someone looked familiar, so I didn’t say anything. It turns out it was her, and she had been thinking the same thing! I felt silly after that. I mean, I’ve hung out with her a few times. You’d think I’d recognize her. Just a tad embarrassing. 

Waiting rooms are gross. Old people burping and farting. People coughing and not covering their mouths. Always someone talking super loud, and a bored toddler screaming and/or running around. Today’s annoyance, however, was a woman was on her cell phone playing a game. How did I know this? Because she had the volume on her phone pretty high. Um, yeah, that’s almost as bad as someone talking to another person on speaker phone in a waiting room. Dude!

I was brought back into the small room where the overly-cheerful nurse, who kept calling me “hon,” even though she’s in her early twenties and I’m well into my forties, pulled up my chart on the computer and said, “Do you have any pain?”

Do I—um, am I supposed to?

“Noooo. I don’t think so,” I answer. 

“Good, good!” she says enthusiastically. Mmm k

The visit with my doctor was fine (I really like him even though he’s like 12), and as I’m walking down the stairs to leave, wearing my trusty flip-flops, I do the stupid thing of texting while walking. Downstairs. In flip-flops. Thankfully, I didn’t trip or fall. I did, however, lose a flip-flop. Damn thing went flying, I kid you not. The couple behind me laughed. Don’t blame them. I laughed, too.

Just another day in the life of Melanie!

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