Reading While Moving Your Lips

I had an amusing incident at the doctor's yesterday.

A bit of the backstory, which of course is TMI.

I had to get Rick back to the doctor's to follow up on his E. coli experience.

Whew, that was bad.  He is feeling darn good today.

In fact, this morning he shared that he finally had a solid BM. Gee, thanks, Rick.

He said, "Nothing says you're old like worrying about BMs"   Sadly true.

He had explosive diarrhea and severe stomach cramps that knocked him out for 10 days. Nothing worse than a sick man, let me tell you!!!! 

While I waited in the waiting room, I was just people-watching as one does.

A lady sitting across from me was reading a book.  A real book in her hand.

That made me happy to see.

Then I noticed she was moving her lips as she read. 

I smiled and thought to myself, well, I talk to myself, so she reads to herself. 

No biggie.

But then she turned the page and began to shake her head vigorously back and forth like she did not like what was on the page, then up and down as if to say, that's better.

I looked away for a minute, and then I heard loudly, "Oh, no, he didn't!"

I looked up, and it was her, but she just continued to read her book.  

She never looked up from the book. 

At this point in time, I was behind her to her right, and there was only 1 older man left in the waiting room who behaved like her heard nothing. How could that be? Or he was more polite than me and just ignored her outburst.

Honestly, I loved that she was that into her book. 

I tried to see the name of the book, thinking I may need to check it out of the library. But I never got a look at the front. When she was called to the back, she pressed the book to her chest, so I didn't see it then either. By God, I tried. I should have walked over to ask her.

I also loved that she made my time in the waiting room so much better.

She honestly entertained me.