What Is It With Ugly Waiting Rooms?

Seriously.  What is it with ugly waiting rooms? 

Recently I’ve had my fair share of time spent in waiting rooms and I can honestly say that each one has been more unattractive than the one before it!  

Now if you’ve been reading here for a while, you’ve probably come to realise that I try to see the funny side to most of life’s tense/stressful/unattractive situations. So you can imagine what was going through my head when I sat down to wait for a blood test yesterday and was greeted with this visual:

I mean, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried!  And let’s not forget that little stereo system to the left, which was belting out some mighty fine tunes from 1978.  Now if that’s not a waiting room party wanting to happen, I don’t know what is!

Or how about the delightfully calming colour of electric green at the reception area of the Neuro’s office, complete with borderline dead pot plant?  

Let’s just take a moment to consider what patients are seeing him for.  

Yep, there’s nothing like putting in a solid 45 minutes in a waiting room that could basically double as a glow stick, while you wait to find out if you have a brain tumour or not.

And don’t get me started on the car dealership waiting room I had to sit in a few weeks back while they put a new battery in my car.  It came complete with chairs that I’m fairly sure the local GP’s office actually rejected and the most spectacular arrangement of oversized fake flowers I think I’ve ever seen.

I did take a photo of it and whacked it up on Instagram, but I was so traumatized by the ugly that I had to delete it.  After all, this blog and it’s Facebook and Insta feeds are all about pretty things and witty words!

Speaking of Instagram, I did have quite the laugh to myself when I put this photo up and a follower suggested I print a coffee table book full of ugly waiting rooms.  

I suggested it would need to be a self-published book (seriously, what publisher would even look at that concept, let alone actually print it!) and she came back with a working title of ‘Do Not Remove’ which naturally would need to be on a sticker.

And that is what I absolutely love about social media.  

So many great people, who are complete strangers, making each other laugh and smile on a daily basis. Ugly waiting rooms aside, it’s not all bad out there is it?!

Have you ever been in an ugly waiting room? Or maybe you know of an attractive one?  Either way, I’d love to know!