My local video store, 6:30, Thursday night.\u00c2\u00a0 Enter a woman with a stern face.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I had to come tell you this. I found out more about our Doctor,” she says, without greeting, to the clerk.<\/p>\n

“Really?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. I am livid! I found out–” voice goes down, thankfully I can still hear, “–he went to the US to study medicine… on a hockey scholarship!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

“No!”<\/p>\n

“Yeah! I am going to a lawyer on Monday. I am in agony! I can’t keep anything in my mouth!”<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t look too bad.”<\/p>\n

“It’s inter-muscular. They say there’s nothing I can do except wait it out.”<\/p>\n

Out of politeness, I’m not looking. I want to look. I must not look. She’s tempting me to look…<\/p>\n

“It’s here, here… here…”<\/p>\n

I’M NOT LOOKING.<\/p>\n

“…And here.”<\/p>\n

“Well it’s not that bad. It looks like mild Chicken Pox,” the clerk laughs.<\/p>\n

“Thanks. Hey do you have that movie with Bill Murray as a soldier?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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