My son had an appointment the other day with the dermatologist. Now this sweet teenager is not the most patient of humans when it comes to waiting. And waiting we did. 45 minutes just to get out of the waiting room.
Much like when you take a toddler to the doctor, I was trying to distract him and keep him entertained. Don't let anyone tell you kids get appreciably easier as they get older. While I'm no longer worried about him pulling lamps off tables or sticking his fingers in the electrical sockets, teenagers can do a lot of damage with their eye-rolling, arm-crossing and incessant sighing.
We looked at every magazine in the place and laughed at some of the pictures and articles in them. Then, boredom sets in.
A woman arrives. She was about 10 years older than me I guess. And she is like a one-woman entertainment show. First she went out to her car and brought in a large plastic storage container full of medicine. She proceeded to take about 10 types of medication - with sound effects. Every swallow was an effort. It was funny, but we were doing OK.
Then she jumps up - and I can not emphasize the jump part strongly enough - runs over to the window and asks the receptionist for the name of the radio station is that is playing. It appears she loves oldies.
Loves them enough that she sits back down, announces to all in the waiting room that she knows every word. And then to prove it - she starts singing. Out loud. With feeling. Lots of feeling.
Let's see if you have the picture. Middle-aged woman, oldies songs, loud singing, teenage boy and immature woman audience (that would be me).
We couldn't help it. We tried to hold the laughter in. We pretended we were laughing at a magazine but I'm pretty sure we didn't fool anyone.
We didn't stop her from singing either.
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back in the day when TJ and I used to go karaoke every week, it never ceased to amaze me how those that could not sing chose the longest song to prove it and sang it the loudest.
Then again, I am sure they wondered the same thing about me ..
Love it! She came to your rescue. I would have had a case of the 'trying not to laugh in church shoulder shakes'.
You. Are. Hilarious!
Good for her! I wish I could sing like that in public...oh yeah I do..heeeeyyyyy
hilarious!
Oh goodness. I hadn't even THOUGHT about what it will be like to entertain TEENAGERS! My mother always just told us to bring a book...that was her fix for everything. She ALWAYS has a book, magazine or Sudoku set in her car, just in case she might get bored.
Man, I hope BBJ likes to READ!!!!!
Oh, and I would have been TOTALLY laughing, too. ;-)
HAHAHA!
Waiting with a teen is brutal.
We had a.i.m. put on her cell phone while at Disney World. I kid you not. It was worth every penny.
Are you sure you were in the dermatologist's office?
That was a hilarious story. It was a good thing it wasn't me there with my 3 year old because he likes to do imitations of people, especially weird ones and it's embarrasing.
Hey, that was me singing!! And yes, I brought those 10 medicines in just for your entertainment. In fact, the doctor's office hires me to come in and put on this daily show! Glad you liked it.
:)
I'm pretty sure people like that are immune to embarrassment. And I won't lie, sometimes I wish I were more like that.
Was she on key at least?
Proof that God does answer prayers, pretty quickly in this instance.
And I'm thinking one too many Botox injections to the forehead.
Em
Does the dermatologist share a waiting room with the nutty doctor?
Btw... did you happen to see what any of those 10 medications were?
Wish I had her self esteem....
I hope this occurred near the END of your 45 minute wait! What a hoot :-)
It's good that you and teen spent the time together--laughing at a crazy drugged-up lady or not. My teen would have had his iPod out and completely ignored everyone.
I work in a counseling center for at-risk youth. It's delightful sometimes.
I wonder what kind of skin condition causes a lack of shame and uncontrollable social awkwardness? I hope it's not contagious, because then ther...chkzz...mmm...Doo Wah Ditty Ditty Dum Ditty Doo.
So I take a few pills and sing out loud, is that a crime?
BTW I totally know you were laughing at me.
LOL! Mine are sitting on top of my dryer, and in the middle of the garage floor....oh, and on the bar stools in the kitchen.
Instead of cleaning up today I decided to paint the bathroom.
Blogs are dangerously inspiring.
I need to start reading cleaning blogs.
I'm pretty sure I would have been laughing too!! =)
are you sure you were in the right doctors office??????
That is hysterical! I don't think I could've kept it in either! Sounds like you're a pretty cool mom!
I wish I had been there, I love sh*t like that!!
I would have died laughing...
In a way I kind of admire her. I know. I'm so weird. But I was in IKEA yesterday and a song "Guns N Roses - Sweet Child of Mine" came on and I had just listened to it the day before. What can I say, I love those oldies. I SO wanted to stand there and dance and sing. But I didn't. Darn it anyway. Because maybe you would have been there laughing at me LOL And trust me you would have laughed because I dance worse then I sing. So I'm glad that you could laugh and I'm glad she kept on singing. Everyone wins.
I think the lady in the dermatologist's office waiting room was my mom.
Thanks for visiting my blog! Yes, we did take out a loan.....it cost more for the candy than it did for the movie. So much for going to the matinee to save money!! I love your blog...it keeps me laughing.
Thank God for that middle aged lady. Sitting with a fidgeting teen for a few more moments coulda been disasterous. (Had my middle one at the pediatrician's yesterday...okay, so he's 18, but oh well), and to keep himself amused, he taunted the toddlers with mean faces and menacing moves. *sigh* I threatened to clean out his ears with my fingernails AND start popping zits if he didn't cease and desist. Or worse yet, to wear my Elfie costume (including shoes, tunic & hat with attached ears) to his next appt...like I did to his older sister a few years ago. Hey, I like being the waiting room middle aged crazy lady!
Is it bad that I TOTALLY see myself doing this in the future...
singing in a doctors office waiting room while high on perscription drugs that is.....
Where do these people come from? I mean how do you get from normal to crazy exactly?
Every day, all around us there are a million silly things people do so we can blog about them. :)
I never imagined the dermatologist's office to be so entertaining! :)
Great story, I'm sure your son will remember that for a long time.
You would think that at least one of those ten medications would have suppressed a little of whatever mental instability she might be suffering from. Thanks for the laugh!
And thanks for dropping by my blog today. It is great meeting you!
Now see here is what I am thinking--people like that make me look relatively normal
That is a good thing
Was going to comment about how maybe that lady belonged at the psychiatrist's office instead of the dermotologist's office, but I see that's been covered.
Instead I shall wonder along with you, "WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG AT THE DERMOTOLOGIST?" What can be taking them so long? It's not like they have emergencies, is it? Gotta pop a pimple! Reschedule my appointments! Sheesh. Run on time, dude. That's all I've got to say.
This is hilarious. I have the same impatient teen boy and he would have loved the entertainment. And he would have laughed out loud.
OK, that image was my first real laugh of the day :) Thank you...
Saved by the oldies...and blog material too. Double bonus.
We would get along great because I would have been laughing too. Unfortunately I probably wouldn't have been trying to hid it. I'm one of those people that really likes to make fun of other people.
Thanks for that, now I'm the one laughing out loud...uncontrollably.
LOL! I want to be her when I grow up. ;)
Ohmygosh was she like Molly Shannon in the Santa Clause 2 movie when she bursts into a Shania Twain Christmas song complete with charm bracelet music?? WOW. Well, you have to admit, it sure takes guts. Or a handful of pills, LOL.
Blessings, Whitney
I wouldn't have been able to hold it in myself...but it doesn't take much to get me rolling!!!
Wow. Are you sure you were in the waiting room for a dermatologist? Could he possibly share space with, say, a mental health professional?
Blessings!
My MIL would have sang along with her and then asked her to jitterbug. Then she would have asked her to church.
Going out with MIL is always an adventure.
First and foremost, did you know there was an imposter in your teen's body? I refuse to believe a true teen would at magazines with their mother. Waiting rooms have always been for me, headphones in ears, sleeping or texting madly.
Sit as far away from parent as humanly possible and make no eye contact.
@ Anglophile - normal to crazy is a fine line so it is easy to flip flop back and forth at a moments notice. ;)
almost peed a little reading that...I can picture her singing...great entertainment!!
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