Stylin' the waitin crib..

Sitting in the woman’s clinic the other day waiting for my specialist appointment I had the luxury of being able to do some people watching.

I am holding ticket/card no 38 and that’s just to see Reception to tell them that I am here to see the specialist. I am sure that this system works for them, but it sure doesn’t work for us, the long suffering patient! Maybe that’s why we are called patient’s?

So, I am a woman sitting in a room full of other women, pregnant women, mothers who have their screaming children because they too are sick of being “patient” and just want to go home. Instead I sit patiently knowing that I am going to be called at any moment, knowing what I am being called in for and dreading it.

That being said, if I had a choice between an internal examination and a Brain and Spinal MRI I’d choose the internal examination without hesitation.

I’ve learnt that it’s important when in these locations that you avoid your feet or knees protruding as much as you can. There are just some people that are reckless with strollers and have no hesitation in using you as a “wheel chock” so that stroller and precious cargo don’t roll away. Perhaps I look like the kind of woman who doesn’t mind and will not bite their head off when a stroller gets rammed into my foot, bum (soft and squishy as it may be), hip or knee. I’ve got news for them, I’m getting old and crotchety and one day I’ll snap!

Do I look like I want play bumper cars with you? Take a deep breath, and relax!

As I sit there people come and go. Couples are being congratulated on their impending birth. One particular couple where being congratulated by a gyno with a particular cynical tone in her voice. I look up to see what I presume to be Mum, Daughter and a young metro sexual “adolescent” who I can only presume is the daughter’s boyfriend (MSBF). Gyno was congratulating young girl, mother was asking copious amounts of questions even after the appointment (that’s how I worked out she was the mother/future grandmother).

Example of quality bog catchers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

I am disappointed in the lack of bog catchers in MC Hammer's "Pray" film clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNSgBkum7o