Everyone at the Urgent Care Waiting Room Was Very, Very Fat Except for Three Readers

 

 

Around 3:30PM yesterday I was in the Kaiser Urgent Care in Harbor City to have a doctor confirm my pink eye and prescribe me drops. I was reading my Kindle. Two other people were reading. The three of us were the only non-fat people (granted I'd like my weight to be down from 230 to 205 or so).

The other few dozen were all conspicuously fat with huge, elephantine neck rolls and impossible-to-conceive bellies drooping below the knees, and were either on their cell phones or watching TV. At one point I wasn't sure if I was in a hospital waiting room or a HomeTown Buffet. 

Another observation: A lot of the people in the waiting room were wearing medical masks, which I appreciate due to the high-volume phlegm coughing. 

Does reading help you lose weight? No, but studies show that watching TV adds to obesity. 

Final Note:

Pink eye is already gone, but my twin daughters have caught my cold. 

Comments

[dorpmuller]

Sure you don't live in Pa.? You should see 'em at the supermarket... average 300 lbs, carts filled with junk that cannot be described as food. It's *really* bad.

[Cheap Dell Server]

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[KAWASAK K 10000]

While I can agree that certain activities require one's full attention, I cannot subscribe to the notion that this includes driving and talking on a hands-free cell phone. Were that the case, talking to your passenger(s) while driving would be equally "dangerous." These types of studies provide fodder for politicians to come up with restrictive legislation. Certainly, we need to be responsible in our driving habits, but I can see this being taken to the extreme with

[Ed S]

Jeff, you were looking at a "self-selected sample," meaning you would expect to find mostly unhealthy people in and around hospitals and urgent care rooms... If they were fit and healthy, why would they be there??

[Angelo]

Kawasak is right. Eating, talking to other passengers, putting in CDs or changing the radio station----if "distracted driving" happens talking on a cell phone, then why not these activities be banned too? Remember the CB craze? You had to hold the microphone in one hand, change the channel on the CB----and talk. Somehow, we survived. "Breaker 1-9, how about a radio check?"