ruminations of a kennedy

Weirdos.

while going to a hospital lab earlier today to get some blood tests administered, I noticed a few slightly bizarre behaviors from some of the people I was around. i’m not saying they are good or bad people, it’s just that I couldn’t help but notice them.

1. one of the receptionists who provided me paperwork to complete had a habit of going back to her storage locker every 10 or so minutes. it was behind her desk, and as she would go into the locker to do whatever she was doing, she would make it a point to look at and touch the face of a picture before closing it. okay, now maybe this doesn’t seem too weird considering many people might touch the face of their loved ones on a photograph, or maybe they have some obsessive compulsive behavior that requires them touch the picture 10 times every hour- I don’t know. but this case was a little bit different because it was a magazine cut-out of justin timberlake. so that means that somewhere, someplace, “tiger beat” magazine is missing a page from a justin timberlake article.
2. while awaiting my turn to give vials of blood to the nurse, i was sitting next to an older couple who were there for the same reason. they seemed like a nice enough couple, but then i happened to hear what the old lady was talking about to her (i’m assuming) husband of many years. at first she was nagging him a good bit (“you better put your glasses here before you lose them again,” “why didn’t you bring your cane?”, etc.). but then she started judging everybody that walked past the office in the hallway, mostly referring to them as “weirdos.” a bathroom attendant went into the men’s and women’s bathroom and was then labeled a “weirdo.” the woman wearing the nose ring who walked into the wrong office by mistake? weirdo. it really made me wonder what this nice old lady would think if she ever gets a chance to walk down the streets of times square on a saturday night.
3. as i walking off the elevator to the bottom floor, some lady decided to not let everybody get off before she would get on. there must have been 8 people in the elevator with me at the time. has she ever boarded an airplane before? i’m pretty sure they allow the passengers to exit before she is allowed to locate her seat. what about a taxi cabs? does she make room for her ass in the taxi before the previous passengers have time to pay the cabbie and get out of the car? i hope this lady has better manners when she’s using the restroom.