Will work for food.

"Good family man, will work for food."

I saw this sign this weekend and I wasn't really that surprised. It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so Christmas shopping really was starting to kick into full swing and this person was standing on the corner between the mall and walmart. Real prime real estate for the beggar.

But a part of me was just like "whatever, you only see these people around this time of year." And it's true. I never see them standing out there in the heat of summer. No, it's always in the winter and around Christmas. I just can't help but feel like they're trying to get something for nothing. I know that there's a lot of poor people out there, but why do these people only show up around the holidays?

Waiting room seating

I walked into the chiropractor's office today as I have about once a month for the past year, since I passed out and collapsed in the shower, and the waiting room is kinda small, only 7 chairs in there, but there have been days where every chair in there is full.

Today was not one of those days.

There were 2 people sitting in the waiting room ahead of me. They were sitting on the wall with 4 chairs on it, sitting with a chair in between them. I looked at it, and decided to follow suit, so I sat in the first chair by the window. One person gets called back, and someone else comes in, sits in the empty chair that had just been vacated. Then a married couple walks in and stands by the counter, even though there were two seats next to each other by me, they stood by the counter, which was actually a good thing because they reeked of cigarette smoke.

So, I went back, got all cracked and got told that the shoes that I was wearing were probably the cause of my lower back problems. Nah, it was the first day I was wearing them.

I go back out to pay my bill, and once again, people are sitting in every other seat.

Why? Why do we do this?