{"id":657,"date":"2011-07-26T07:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:08:36","slug":"observations-from-the-waiting-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Observations From The Waiting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I spend a lot of time in observation of people. <\/p>\n

I have a lot of time available for observing as a significant amount of my observing lately has been done in waiting rooms. <\/p>\n

Being sick is a full time job for some of us. Waiting is part of that job.<\/p>\n

Now that I have qualified for Platinum Waiter status (obtained after waiting in over 100 different offices in less than 3 years, or waiting for over 250 hours in two years or less) I feel qualified to comment on some of my observations.<\/p>\n

1)\tBeing a waiter does not come naturally to anyone. Being a waiter with patience is not only unnatural it has never been observed on this planet.<\/p>\n

2)\tWomen prepare for waiting and bring things such as books or needlework to keep them busy. They have even been known to chat with other waiters while in waiting rooms.\"\"<\/a><\n\n3)\tMen sleep. For them the sleeping begins within 2 minutes of entering any waiting room. (This happens whether they are the waiter or accompanying a waiter.)\n\n4)\tThere are no new magazines (dated within one year of your appointment) in any waiting room in the continental United States. Stop wasting your time looking. New magazines and waiting rooms are a non-existent combination.\n\n5)\tThose waiting in waiting rooms will be happy to discuss all the details with you of whatever brought them to the waiting room, and they know every single detail. They will share these details whether you want to hear them or not. \n\n6)\tWaiters will discuss, in detail, the horrendous, unbelievable attributes of every physician, hospital, emergency room, pharmacy, and procedure, they have dealt with in the past. \n\n7)\tOnly after listening to the litany of do-badders will they tell you which physicians are good, which prescription plan is the best, and how to save $ .32 on your next prescription refill. In case you missed it, they are experts in this area. According to them you would be wise to listen to what they have to say.\n\n8)\tIt doesn\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spend a lot of time in observation of people. I have a lot of time available for observing as a significant amount of my observing lately has been done in waiting rooms. Being sick is a full time job for some of us. Waiting is part of that job. Now that I have qualified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-the-land-of-confusion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wandaargersinger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}