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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn the doctor's office today...
I was waiting for them to call me, and they had Fox News on the TV. A lady a few seats down from me said something about the guy who sneaked into the White House a few weeks ago, and then said: "He didn't shoot the President. I wish he had. As far as I'm concerned, he and everybody who voted for him should be shot." And then she let forth a string of obscenities, which you can probably guess.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)If you'd said anything, they would have lectured you on how Political Correctness is bad, and you must be a "liberal." Screw em.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I was at the neurologist.
LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)..in front of strangers, in a semi-public setting like a doctor's waiting room. That's not exactly sane behavior. Seriously screwed up.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)let them go to the dr.s office, and track that person down, and ask her a few questions
shenmue
(38,506 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)out a cell phone and reported it on the spot. Considering all the nuts out there, if I had a cellphone I think that I would have had the local FBI and Secret Service numbers in my address book. The OP could have even taken a picture of the woman was well for ID purposes.
Edit to add - I would also consider videoing the woman with my Ipod that has video capability.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)But she's advocating violence against other humans who live outside the womb. Typical right winger hypocrite. Her Jesus would be ashamed.
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)wanted to make a call to the police.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)What is wrong with leafing through those germ-infested ancient magazines?
I always take a book and sit it the furthest corner from the TV.
As for the crazy lady, maybe her problems are "neurological". Or she is just a hate-saturated wing nut. I would have moved as far as possible from her.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...and said, "Go ahead. Shoot me."
After she was done sputtering and stammering like a damned fool, I would have laughed in her face.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)but you never know who's carrying what these days.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...I still don't care. When I say "stand in front of her", I'd be right in her idiot face. She wouldn't have a chance. Tired of people crapping RW shit in public.
murielm99
(30,741 posts)in the waiting room, I let it be known that I object. If they do not change the channel for me, I tell them that I will be spending my time and money with another doctor.
There is a cardiologist in Rockford IL, acknowledged to be excellent, who does not have my business. Other Democrats will hear about him. Will it hurt his business? Who cares?
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)when I have been in public waiting rooms and they have the cable remote sitting there, whether Fox is on or not when no one is looking I go to settings and parental controls on the remote and put a password on the Fox channel.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)they have the show Planet Earth on Blu Ray and they play each DVD in turn. The receptionist says it's a little more popular than standard cable crap and it keeps her blood pressure down.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)They put Animal Planet on sometimes. Other times, they have the History Channel. I usually go there in the morning, so I don't see the whackazoid shows about aliens and Bigfoot. Once in a while, you get the nice documentaries about pioneers or the Civil War.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)f*** that
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)TBS on at some places, can't go wrong with comedy. Animal Planet goes over pretty good too. Some have invested in DVDs. I think they realized 24/7 news wasn't a good thing for patients.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)It is a huge laugh.I love it when they try to diagnose the TV for going batshit crazy.
I have been doing this for years...
I like that.
easychoice
(1,043 posts)Maybe they will turn some of that offensice crap off...Who among us needs to listen to that fat stupid gasbag Limbaugh at the dentists office?