Lunches with Lisa

My sister, Lisa, goes to different clinic locations with her physician when he travels. On this day, he was sharing clinic space with another provider, one who has a strong patient following despite the fact that he runs over an hour late every day.

Two of the regulars were there.

One who comes with her husband and brings a lawn chair to sit on ("it's better for my back") and one who brings her Pomeranian, Jack, with her ("he's my seeing eye dog").

A new patient, a middle aged Asian woman, walked up to the window and signed in for her appointment. It was 2:00 and her appointment was for 2:10. The front desk person, Melanie, registered her and informed her that the doctor was running an hour behind.

"An hour behind? Well, how many people befo me?"

Melanie, glanced at the charts, prepped and ready for the nurse. "It looks like there are six ahead of you."

"Six? That going take more than hour!"

Melanie nodded in agreement, "Yes, unfortunately, it might. Please go ahead and take a seat and we'll be with you as soon as we can."

She takes a seat as the regulars size her up and down and Jack sniffs in her direction.

Ten minutes go by and she heads back to the check-in window.

"How many people ahead me now?"

"Well," Melanie responds, "no one has left yet so...still six."

Lawn chair yells out, "Sit down! He always runs behind. Stop bothering her."

Stunned, the woman sits down.

Five minutes later, she stands up again and starts to walk toward the window.

"Didn't I tell you to sit down?" Lawn chair lady is becoming increasingly agitated.

"You no tell me what to do! How many people? It five minutes pass by appointment time."

"We're still looking at about an hour. No one has left." Melanie glances at the check in sheet to appease her.

"You said hour 15 minute ago."

Now, Jack's owner starts up. "Sit down and shut up! Stop going to the window and bothering these girls. And what did you eat for lunch? You have stinky Oriental breath!"

The lady gasps as she stares at Jack's owner.

From behind her, lawn chair lady and her husband, demand that she sits down and shuts her mouth.

"Yeah!", chimes in Jack's owner.

"You no tell me what to do! I know Kung Fu!"

Jack starts to growl as his owner stands up, "Well, I don't know Kung Fu but I know crazy, now SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!"

That seemed to work because she sat down and didn't make another comment until she was checking out after her appointment.

"I cause fight with women in waiting room," she giggled.

Melanie shook her head, "Ya think??"