Waiting Room Reading

Cafe Society
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So, I’m ashamed to admit it. I love going to the dentist because its the only time I get to ready trashy People magazine. I don’t indulge myself unless I’m in a waiting room.

My endodonist had U.S. News and World Report…made me consider switching endodontists for someone with worse taste in magazines.

My mechanic has In Touch. And Field and Stream. And a few magazines I’m not comfortable picking up because I think they may have spent too much time in the men’s room. I always remember to bring my own reading material.

So what do you read in the waiting room?

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Dangerosa, you would love my office. (Or at least the reading material.) We currently have:

Bike
Mountain Biking
Sporting News
Runner
Auto Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Vogue en Español
YM
Ebony
Nickelodeon
Discover Kids
Highlights for Children
Business 2.0
Business Week
Fortune
Black Enterprise
Reader’s Digest
Travel
Vacation
Smithsonian
National Geographic
Parents
Redbook
Taste of Home

And a couple more I can’t remember the names of. We pay for 2 of the magazines listed. Gotta love the subscription service.

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It’s not reading, but: a Sunday crossword puzzle (or two).

4

I carry a book with me in my purse at all times, so I read that.

I steer clear of the magazines, because I’m afraid someone I know might catch me reading People.

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I usually bring a book with me. Something sci-fi, which is my preferred genre. If I forget or don’t have anything on hand, I usually read People, Entertainment Weekly, or some simililarly light read.

What other people in the waiting room might think of my reading material never enters into my mind.

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My doctor’s waiting room has a terrible “selection” of reading material - they seem to like what looks like the most stupid kind of “women’s magazine”. If I stop to think about it, it does rather scare me that the medics might have decided that all their patients are completely brain dead. I normally would take a book with me. Failing that, I try to have time to buy a newspaper. Otherwise, I end up reading all the little notices on the walls and getting very irate about the punctuation or lack thereof. Anyone getting the impression that I am nervous and bad-tempered when having to go to waiting room? :slight_smile:

btw - my doc is absolutely fine - I don’t take my own snarkiness out on her, honestly!

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I used to leaf through whatever crap was handy: People, Vanity Fair, Better Homes and Gardens, Parenting, Newsweek, Let’s Talk About Menopause. Now though, I can’t read anything but headlines without reading glasses.
Finding and putting them on wrecks casual junk perusal for me.

I just watch the fish in the aquarium.