Waiting Room Humor

First: My Thanks to writer-friend Karen Hawkins for the use of her dimple.

Onward: I love my car, a nifty little CRV. I take care of it and it takes care of me.

This sometimes calls for visits to Honda's caring mechanics and a time in waiting rooms. Yesterday was such a time. Now, there are 2 waiting rooms, one for the quick service, oil changes, that sort of thing. Then another for the hard-ball stuff. This dealer has WiFi and HiDef TV. Both have great bathrooms and offer coffee. How sweet it is.

NOTE: I love waiting rooms of all kinds. Well, maybe not ALL kinds as I probably haven't been to ALL kinds yet. But the ones I have visited are so interesting, that maybe that will be a Bucket List Item for me--hitting every waiting room possible.

But yesterday's waiting room offered several priceless moments....

In for an oil change, I settled into my tote bag of keeping occupied things. I load this tote for any trips requiring several stops. It's packed with water bottle, sun screen, hand lotion, PDA, magazines, newspapers, sometimes an AlphaSmart note-taker (see my other blog for writers).


The quick-fix waiting room is my favorite. So a mix of men and women (Why is it customary to place "men" before "women" when writing?) were sitting in various chairs. A businessman was punching laptop keys and talking into his earphone gadget. Men and women were (there it is again) reading magazines and newspapers and talking on cell phones.

But the obvious object d'art was the big screen, HiDef located above all of us. The sound was quite loud. I'm getting to the fun stuff--stick with me.

Okay, onward. Repeat: the sound was loud. In their program, The Doctors were primed to answer "anything", no matter how personal. The first question concerned a woman's orgasm.

At this point, every male ducked his head firmly into his newspaper. A woman looked sideways and I stared back, our gazes locked. The questions and answers seemed to go on forever, the males too still in their seats, so you knew they were listening intently.

The next question offered an even better topic: circumcision.

At this point, I gave trying to conceal my interest in everyone's reactions. What is really amazing, as I read this post, is that with all the discomfort in the waiting room, that no one got up and changed or asked the attendant to change, the channel. :)