Or picking up random out of date magazines to browse.
I remember once flicking through an old Runners World at the doc’s only to be confronted with a picture of myself in one of the race reports (Tring2Town)…
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or, god forbid, talking to people 
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Readers Digest - is that still a thing?? Was either that, National Geographic or Country Life
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Saga holidays 
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haha, a few years back the germ police basically said it was a dirty habit and we shouldn’t be doing it. Quite a turn around for my old rural place, which in living memory had both chickens and gerbils in the waiting room until the inspector threatened to shut us down.
Once the mags had gone, people looked sad with nothing to do. Some enterprising company sprang up and offered to put up TVs in the waiting room playing health info videos on repeat, and pay us £50 per month for the privilege. Sounded great, but the (wholly. predictable) downside was advertising.
Nursing homes.
Funeral plans.
Funeral homes.
Have you made a will?
etc etc etc
it made the customers feel worse not better, so we unplugged it IIRC
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Facebook keeps suggesting that I might be interested in a “cycling for the over 70s” group 
I’m not that old, you cheeky feckers 
It seems to consist mainly of people posting pictures of their very bling bikes resting against walls. There’s no indication if the bikes are actually ridden
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How’s that any different to on here?!
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I’m getting that as well. I thought that Facebook had seen my average speeds on my Boris Bike commutes and assumed I was being a bit creative with my dob.
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And me. I’m getting loads of suggested pages and ads these days on FB, it seems almost at the point they outnumber the pages/people I actually do follow. Starting to wonder why I’m still using it.
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I got it old skool today. L&G selling me some plan or other for old folks like me by post 
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I’ve not had that and I bloody qualify for that group! FB bastards……
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The reason for the MOT was that my Dad & more recently my younger brother have - manageable - prostate cancer & it was primarily the PSA test I wanted doing.
Phone up today & ask if results are back.
They say “Yes & you’re all fine.”
I say “So my PSA numbers are good?”
They say “Let me check…long wait…long wait…long wait…we didn’t actually test for that.”
As ever I’m delighted with my local surgery, someone is a fuckwit & I’ll have to give a drip of blood again…I hate needles…I’d rather they punched my nose.
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I have a letter saying that my test for bowel cancer has come back negative, however that doesn’t mean I don’t have bowel cancer. 
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My father had it as well so I’m surprised I haven’t had these tests yet.
Another birthday very very soon as well 
this might nudge things, otherwise I might ask if I should be expecting them
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Chase them up @jeffb .
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Sounds like the letter was written by a lawyer
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Yeah I’m waiting for one from the bank that says just because I’m broke doesn’t mean I’m not a millionaire 
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Think birthday wishes might be in order for @funkster for yesterday?
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Is he in denial ?
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The club nobody wants to join
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