Some time ago I was taking kid to a doctor. It was late afternoon, so we had to go to a hospital emergency department instead of regular health center. It was nothing serious, it could've waited till the next day, except the next day was Saturday.
It was emergency department for children, so there was huge amount of toys, cartoons coming from two tellys and lots of other kids to play with. Three and half hour was almost too little for kid for he had such a good time. But yes, a lot of waiting.
We saw a nurse first and then a doctor. In between kid had to give two separate urine samples. (Now you know what we suspected was wrong.) But it took like seven minutes together to talk with these people and rest of it was just waiting. That is, pure boredom for me.
Luckily I had prepared us for a long waiting with little snacks. Without them there would've been few tantrums for sure. We shared them with this other kid who was playing with my kid. The other mom looked grateful that I supervised them while she took care of her sick baby. Well, my kid didn't feel sick so it was easy for me and I was glad to help.
When we were finally leaving, she made a comment about the length we both had been there, she was still staying, and also said that her husband would've gone insane after half an hour. My answer was: "Yes, women do what they must do."
On the way home I was so ashamed. Waiting room was almost equally full of dads with their children. Why the hell did I make such a stupid comment? Yes, I think men many times try to slack and leave these kind of things to the mother. But I also know women can be just as lazy. I would be if I could. And those dads in the waiting room seemed all very worried about their children. Not one looked like they were forced there. Actually I saw one couple were the mother seemed like pouting while the dad played with their kid.
I'm still ashamed. I'm very sorry guys.
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