Doctor's office

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My examination room was crawling with vines, from the deep moss green coloured carpet all the way up to the ceiling tiles.  Entangled within the plastic vines were a stuffed gorilla (complete with banana), neon rainbow tree frog, and various assorted other critters.  The walls were sponge-painted forest green, a quick and easy illusory effect to convince us that the jungle was surrounding the patient.  I half expected for canned jungle noises to fill the silence, while I waited for Dr. Miller to see me.

"Maybe I just got put into the children's examination room because the others are full," I mused.  "Sounds like a fairly reasonable explanation."

My examination room was littered with African animals - giraffes, hippos, rhinos, elephants - placed high and low on glass shelves, behind which was a backdrop of the Savannah at sunset.  Turning to my right in the examination chair, I nearly knocked over a porcelain lion, captured mid-roar with his gaping maw comically exaggerated.

"Okay, this is starting to get just a little bit weird," I thought, "but maybe he's really into jungles.  Or Africa.  Yeah, that's it."

My examination room, with dimmed lights, was painted a dark navy and dotted with stars.  That blue green marble that is the Planet Earth floated off in the distance.  A craggy grey shelf partially filled the space, pockmarked with craters and complete with an American flag jutting out stiffly.

"And now we're on the moon."  Around this time was when I finally admitted to myself that I may be seeing a children's eye doctor.  Such is the trouble of finding a new doctor in a new city...


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  1. Hehe, whoops! At least you got a lollipop or sticker when you were done right ;)

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  2. Heehee...well, we're all children at heart anyhoo, right? :D

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  3. I got my hopes up...I thought you were seeing an MD today. Well, ot sounds like you were in an interesting setting for a semi-unpleasant exam. It's not the dentist, but I like everyone and everything far away from my eyes.

    PS-The office probably has lots of adult patients--former kid patients all grown up! :)

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  4. I almost choked to death reading this. This definitely made my day, and probably my week! Did you act like you meant to be there the whole time once you figured out what had happened?

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  5. So he's really either really cool or really creepy, right? It's so incredibly hard finding a new doctor. And I need an eye doctor desperately. Maybe I should just go to yours!

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  6. Haha fantastic. :) His doctor's office does sound pretty enjoyable though!

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  7. ha!! that's hilarious. did you get a toy after?

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  8. oh dear! and how is your eyesight!? haha!!

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  9. I don't like going to doctor, but this one sure
    has put some effort in the interior and perhaps
    also making patients really relaxed? :P Xx

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  10. hehe at least it was something interesting to look at. i hope you got a sticker ;)

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  11. lol, brilliant :)

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  12. haha! there is always something comforting about seeing children's doctors. :)

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