Office hours
I spent a long hot summer living above a doctors surgery in Bolton.

I shared the flat with a mate and the doctor who ran the surgery downstairs.

One time my girlfriend came up to visit and we spent the day between the sheets, catching up.

In the early evening I finally left the love shack to stock up on some supplies from the kitchen. The doctor was sat at the table, he looks up at me above his horn rimmed glasses and asks how my afternoon went with a quirky smile.

"Oh, you know. Nice," I said as I rummaged round, attempting to cobble together a meal.

"The reason I ask is your room's directly above my office. And the floorboards are rather creaky, to say the least..."

I stopped making the sandwiches I was so lovingly preparing for my girlfriend - seems I'd spent the whole day stuffing something or other inside her various orifaces.

"Oh?" I replied.

The doctor places his glasses on the table and rubs the bridge of his nose.

"I had to keep a patient in with me for half an hour longer than I would've liked. She was deaf, you see... At round three-thirty? Just until the noise died down a bit."

I nodded, thinking back to what my girlfriend and I were doing leading up to three-thirty. "Sorry, Doc - Won't happen again."

"I don't mind what you do in the evening, but during surgery hours I'd appreciate it if you, well, didn't," he looks me straight in the eye. "This old lady only came in for a repeat prescription, and I ended up giving her a full physical."

I went to open my mouth, thought better of it, and scuttled back to my room.
( SpankyHanky, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 12:53, 4 replies)

Have I got this right?
The old lady was deaf, so she wouldn't have heard?
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 13:34, closed)

Yes,
That's why the doc kept the deaf one in the office, so a hearing capable person wouldn't have to go through that.


Is hearing capable a good word? Who knows. Who cares?
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 14:01, closed)

:-)
Thank you!
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 14:51, closed)

I dunno if it's a good word
But I bet you could make gobs of money if you set up a charity for it.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tue 3 Mar 2009, 21:24, closed)