We’ve all seen them: people who don’t pay attention or care about the people around them. I see people driving erratically because they’re on the phone, having obnoxious ring tones loudly blasting at movies or at dinner, and people talking loudly at restaurants and, in this case, a doctor’s office.
When I go to get my allergy shot, I have to then stay in the waiting room for 30 minutes to be sure that I don’t have a negative reaction (Anaphylactic shock). At times there are loud kids or people having conversations, but today…
There is a sign at the front desk asking you not bother other patients by using your cell phone. As I’m waiting (only one or two minutes into my required 30), a father and his two young (8 and 10?) sons, who were there to get shots, come in and sit down. Almost immediately, the father takes out his cell phone and makes a call. People do it (no, I haven’t) but they are usually courteous enough to keep their calls short and quiet. This guy was not quiet. And I could tell based on the conversation that it would be a long one. It sounded like an uncle catching up with a nephew about the nephew’s family.