Who thinks up this stuff?
As I was waiting patiently (for the first hour - then not so patiently) at my gynecologist appointment today, I couldn't help but notice this stack of postcards by my side. I was in the "we'll move you to here and then you'll be next" waiting room, which is the room they move you to after you have spent the required amount of time in waiting room number 1 and your chat with the nurse. They keep moving you making you think you are making progress, when in fact, I think I ultimately went to the same room twice, where I read the same three magazines aimed at pregnant women for the third time.
Before you even make it out of waiting room number 1 though you have to make four trips to the window in W. R. #1 where you talk through a 5 inch circle cut out of Plexiglas, while everyone else sits and smiles at you, knowing you feel like an idiot talking into a circle. Trip one is to sign your name ON THE NEXT AVAILABLE LINE. Trip 2 is to get your paperwork so it can all be updated, although absolutely nothing has changed since your last appointment but the date. Trip 3 is to turn your paperwork in and give them your insurance card. Trip 4 is to get your insurance card back after they have copied it, because you know it is a major inconvenience for them to turn to the copier on their left and do it while you are standing there waiting.
Who decided what height this cut out should be anyway? What if you are a very petite person? Do you have to squat down and talk through the paper sliding hole or do you hop up and balance yourself on the edge of the counter where you can reach the hole? Or do you just talk into the Plexiglas and look even more stupid than those of us who are sticking our mouths up to a circle in order to be heard?
Anyway, back to waiting room number 2 where I found the postcards that caught my attention. My doctor came through and I asked him who was the marketing genius behind this workshop. He laughed and said he would certainly like to know that himself. 
Finally, here's the postcard in question:
