by Amanda Vittitow

Created on: April 19, 2008

I used to work in a doctor's office with one other girl, also Amanda, so we saw our share of funny, odd, crazy things in the office. We act silly and laugh at the smallest things, so this day was especially different.

One morning Amanda and I were caught up on our work, so we were sitting in a room, waiting on something else to come our way. In the middle of our conversation, Amanda stops in mid-sentence and says, "Oh my god," and looks out the doorway.

"What?"

She leans over the desk and whispers, "Turn around. Hurry, turn around."

I turned around and looked down, only to see a middle-aged woman in the floor of the open waiting room, doing Yoga. My eyes widen, and as I turn around to look at Amanda, I see her doubled-over with quiet laughter.

"What the hell is she doing?" I ask Amanda.

"Yoga," she responds.

Then we hear this from the woman, "You see, if you do this," and does some sort of Yoga move that stretches her back, "It's really good for a bad back. I have such problems with my lower back, and I find Yoga really helps me out."

"Who is she talking to?" I ask Amanda.

"The other patients," she whispers.

"Come on, get in the floor and try it. You'll really feel a difference," the woman is saying.

Soon there are four, middle-aged women (including her) doing Yoga in the middle of our open waiting room.

"See? See what a difference that makes? Can you feel that working out your back? Oooohhh that feels nice," the woman is saying.

The doctor walks up to pull one of the Yoga women back, and he says, "What are you doing?"

The 'teacher' says, "Oh we're having a Yoga class in the middle of the waiting room."

When she goes back with him, Amanda and I are bursting with laughter at this point. And when the Yoga 'teacher' comes out from her exam, she is explaining her back problems to the doctor and is giving him the same spew about Yoga. He's pretending to be interested, but you can tell he doesn't really care. Before she leaves, she says, "Here, let me show you," and gets in the floor to do more Yoga as a demonstration.

As she's doing this, he looks at us and mouths, "What the hell is she doing?"

Who ever thought that an optometrist office also serves as a place to do your Yoga too? LOL.

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