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Azur
Viewing airport or mall crowds is OK, but nothing can beat the tension and fear of a hospital waiting room, Azur, but I think it would be better if you simply remembered them. It would be easier and less painful.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 13, 2008 at 4:49 PM
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vogue
It depends on whether you like being shaken or stirred?
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 13, 2008 at 4:45 PM
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Thanks for your comment on citizen of world. Do you think I can consider myself a 'bond girl' then?
posted by
vogue
on May 13, 2008 at 8:03 AM
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You did the right thing, you observed then wrote about it
I almost, but not quite, regret being well now as it takes me out of the rich theatre of the casualty ward and hospitals.
posted by
Azur
on May 12, 2008 at 8:23 PM
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Sira890
Thank you Sira. I didn't quite understand that waiting room - most of the Canadian ones I've been in are like discussion groups and the next person in is included automatically. The French are usually friendly as well - as long as you aren't in Quebec......er, so I'm told.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 12, 2008 at 4:04 PM
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TAPS
Ahh! Thank you very much for the compliment and the rose, TAPS.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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I felt like I was sitting there with you,
the scene was described so vividly!
Incidently, I'm usually one of those blase people who would rather not talk to strangers. That being said, I would have smiled in response to your greeting, because it's the polite thing to do. I guess the frenchies have different rules of etiquette than the rest of us canucks!
posted by
Sira890
on May 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM
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Johnmacnab, No matter how serious you are about a subject, you always get a laugh from me. I love your writing.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 12, 2008 at 5:19 AM
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Whacky & Bo
Ah, Whacky - are you sure about that? I'm not.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 12, 2008 at 4:26 AM
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At least you weren't confused!??
From me and
=^..^=
posted by
Whacky
on May 11, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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vogue
Gasp! You actually stoop to their level? Good fun, isn't it?
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 11, 2008 at 7:42 PM
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Pat_B
I vaguely remember Ray Bradbury's Mars Adventures, but I read them as short stories - I think. But I do remember the insanity part - let's face it, if we insisted we had met aliens, we would be committed as well. I wonder if this is where I got the idea that perhaps we all came from Mars, and maybe that is what Earth is going to look like when we've finished with it?
The Waiting Room denizens didn't shoot me, but you don't know what type of evil force seeped out from the 'accidentally' opening elevators, or even if they were elevators.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 11, 2008 at 7:40 PM
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I just love waiting rooms. There is such ample opportunity to annoy the blase people, isn't there?
posted by
vogue
on May 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM
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I've just started reading Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles."
I know I shoulda read it 30 years ago, but I've got the time now. At any rate the Martian response to earthlings arriving in a rocket ship was very similar to your experience in the Waiting Room. Bits of unintelligible language were exchanged among the natives, there was considerable rudeness to the newcomers. In case you don't remember this one, the first team of earthlings was euthanized. It seems Martians were often insane telekinetic and their delusions were manifested in three dimensions. Fortunately, the citizens of Waiting Room chose not to shoot you.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 11, 2008 at 8:47 AM
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