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Spread some Festive cheer
Posted by Freddie Owen on 23 December 2010 - 9:53am.
Had to visit my local doctor's surgery yesterday, and passed the time by reading a 3 years old copy of some celebrity mag or other. It dawned on me that the experience would have been so much better if I'd found an aged edition of The Word.
So, next time I go I'm going to take one along, and leave it there.
As well as cheering up the surgery, I can also use the exercise to convince the FPO that I am 'sorting out all that crap under the bed'.
If other members of the massive joined in this festive gesture, NHS waiting rooms would be a much brighter place.
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I don't keep back issues of magazines so...
whenever possible I leave them where they're likely to be stumbled across. My local pub has a bookshelf in the bar so there's plenty on there; hadn't thought of taking them to the doctor and dentist though.
"whenever possible I leave them where they're likely to be...
... stumbled across."
Woodland and hedgerow, gentleman's interest, just saying...
curses I just moved house
and recycled a huge pile I should have been "spreading the Word".
Word and Waiting Rooms
Mrs. Beach has been taking all of my old magazines to work for years. She claims copies of Word and Private Eye are invariably "borrowed" by junior medics.
Someone at the dental practice I use is evidently a Word reader as there are always copies in the waiting area.
my dentist
...both has Word in his waiting room AND prescribes me valium for any major work.
Freddie
I had to laugh.
For some reason when I first read your post I took your FPO directed comment about "sorting out all that crap under the bed" to mean you were visiting the surgery for some of those 'Pele pills' and not just clearing out old magazines.
Oops.
Charming I'm sure
The funny bit on those ads is the warning 'If you get an erection for more than 4 hours, call your doctor'.
Should that ever happen, I'm calling everybody
my first time was at the dentist
the first time I ever saw a copy of the Word that is. Do we all share the same dentist, or is there a correlation between dentistry and the esteemed publication emerging here?
Sorry
I stopped reading after the title.
At the local vet
A few years ago I left some copies of Word at our vet's surgery. When I returned about a week later they had all disappeared while the same old pile of crap remained.
My barber ...
On Queen St E, Toronto is a 75 yr old Italian who impressively has 4 or 5 back copies of The Word of 2007 vintage.
I always put my old Words in the waiting room.
They normally get nicked by my staff for their husbands to read. They always promise to bring them back. They never bloody do.
My dentist
and Mrs Clef's former employer (the same place) used to have a regular subscription. Sadly it's dropped off now, the subscription, I hasten to add, but it was much appreciated, I did borrow the odd one or two but it would always be returned. Honest.
I did that last week!
Six month's worth of Word joy sprinkled in my doctor's waiting room.