Good hospitality
I went to see my Mum in hospital tonight, she's okay, been through alot though so she is completely exhausted, but all things considered she's in good shape. She's in a nice quiet room, there's only four rooms on the ward so it's not busy which is good, and she says the nurses are all fantastic.
It's very weird visiting the hospital, when you walk in the main entrance you arrive in a concourse with shops up either side, it's like a 1980's shopping center, and the only clues that you're in a hospital is that the guy flicking through the latest issue of Model Railway Monthly in WH Smith is in his slippers and dressing gown, dragging a saline drip behind him. Also in this little concourse are a hairdressers, cafe, shoe shop and a travel agent. Yeah, a travel agent. I thought that was weird too. I might be missing the point but isn't that slightly cruel? Surely that's the equivalent of the "Here's what you could have won" moments at the end of game shows. You know the bit where the screen pulls back to reveal a top of the range BMW convertible, and the poor contestant is left standing there with a twenty pound BHS voucher and some cookware. Needless to say, it was closed.
Of course hospitals nowadays wouldn't be hospitals without the huddled group of smokers at the entrance. It always amazes me that you're allowed to do that anywhere near a hospital, but I suppose it would be a "human rights" violation if they banned it. Considering what a killer it is these days though, it's surprising.
"Nurse, where's the smoking section?"
"Oh, it's right outside next to the hit-and-run section, just past the drug dealers and the firing range..."
It's very weird visiting the hospital, when you walk in the main entrance you arrive in a concourse with shops up either side, it's like a 1980's shopping center, and the only clues that you're in a hospital is that the guy flicking through the latest issue of Model Railway Monthly in WH Smith is in his slippers and dressing gown, dragging a saline drip behind him. Also in this little concourse are a hairdressers, cafe, shoe shop and a travel agent. Yeah, a travel agent. I thought that was weird too. I might be missing the point but isn't that slightly cruel? Surely that's the equivalent of the "Here's what you could have won" moments at the end of game shows. You know the bit where the screen pulls back to reveal a top of the range BMW convertible, and the poor contestant is left standing there with a twenty pound BHS voucher and some cookware. Needless to say, it was closed.
Of course hospitals nowadays wouldn't be hospitals without the huddled group of smokers at the entrance. It always amazes me that you're allowed to do that anywhere near a hospital, but I suppose it would be a "human rights" violation if they banned it. Considering what a killer it is these days though, it's surprising.
"Nurse, where's the smoking section?"
"Oh, it's right outside next to the hit-and-run section, just past the drug dealers and the firing range..."
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