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Observations from Hospital Waiting Rooms and Other Life Thoughts
Observations from Hospital Waiting Rooms and Other Life Thoughts | Michael Ottis
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"Observations From..." is a collection of observations gathered from personal experiences in various hospital waiting rooms. These observations are mixed in with various thoughts as related to the reader from the author's unique point of view. "There are rules in the waiting room. They aren't written down so that people can reference them, but they are there.. The communication rule: never make eye contact and if by chance that happens, look away, don't acknowledge the contact. If spoken to, act as if you didn't hear a word. The words spoken need to be confirmed, verified and spoken again.." "Now it would seem that the three brothers broke these rules, they did, but they made people smile and forget for a second. This is welcome breakage."
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Leniverse
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In the waiting room at the dentist both kids and I got out a book each. A waiting father turns to his teenage daughter and asks, "Have you read anything today? How much telly have you watched?" Then he whips out some printouts, "You can read this after me. It's from the blog of a woman who's been travelling across Canada. It's really interesting." The poor girl just sank deeper and deeper into her seat and mumbled, "I'm ok, thanks." ?

Leniverse @batsy You really started something with that Atticus Claw book. 😘 This is the fourth in the series, and he objected to having to put it down for a moment so the dentist could look at his teeth. 😂 6y
twohectobooks The guy printed out blog posts?!!?! Amazing. 6y
Leniverse @twohectobooks Yes, like 4-5 A4 pages of text with the odd picture. Nicely stapled in one corner. 😂 I guess he hates reading on his phone, and really wanted to catch up on this woman's Canadian adventure? 🤷😂 6y
batsy Aww, that's great! ❤️ Atticus sounds like a riot 🐈 I'm also super fascinated with the dad and his blog printouts 😂 6y
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DebbieGrillo
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Reading my #LMPBC book in the hospital waiting room while my mom has a cataract removed.

TheLibrarian Hope everything goes well! 6y
GrilledCheeseSamurai Best of luck to mom! 6y
DebbieGrillo Thanks @TheLibrarian and @GrilledCheeseSamurai we went out to lunch and did a Costco run afterward. I think she's going to be just fine. 6y
minkyb Happy it all went well. 6y
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