I still share the control panel at the Brain Surgery with Rabbit, sometimes the Brain Doctor picks up a call when one of us is out on a break, I can tell when this happens because appointments are blocked in with wavy patterns instead of patient details.
Yesterday when we got to the bit of the appointment book with a wavy doodle there was no-one waiting to be seen in the surgery
I asked the Brain Doctor who the doodle signified
A new patient
Do you know him?
No
Do you have his number?
No...
he talked so much, he just rambled on and on for so long I couldn't bear to ask him to say anything else
This was the point that Tattoo Man came downstairs in his vest to update us on the status of his internal bleeding
Translating Oe with Mum.
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Wavy doodles! The dentist I worked for used to do that in the margin of our appointment book when he was on the phone to his golf club. Maybe it's something they learn before they greaduate?
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