Behaviour in the Doctor's Waiting Room

Yes, that's a point.

Desperately trying to remember what the floor is like ....
Grey composite tiles?

Allira

No-one says very much at all in our GP's waiting room.

Nor ours.

Partly because there are so few people in there

Since Covid it’s difficult to get an appointment, but when you do the waiting room is always empty.

I could chat to myself I suppose 🤷‍♀️

Haven’t a clue about the floor material in the hospital.

I had a great aunt who was deaf and so would shout when she thought she was just talking. My old dad was deaf in one ear so also spoke loudly without realising it.
Is your speaking voice a bit louder due to deafness. Could be that when you said the doc had a foreign name the whole waiting room could hear you rather than just your son. But of course could be totally wrong on this, sometimes our ACs are just too self conscious and may think we are misbehaving when we’re not.

No-one says very much at all in our GP's waiting room.

My GP has a foreign surname.
She's from Cheshire.

My DD has a foreign surname.
She's from SE England.

Just saying.

I thought it may be a racist thing. But on a previous occasion in a hospital waiting room he declined to discuss the flooring material there . I am always interested in flooring material. wherever I go. I thought that since nobody else was talking he did not want to behave unconventionally.

I mean, I'm not addicted to flooring material, it's just that at home he would have liked to discuss it out of mild interest.

Are there public places where it is bad manners to chat?

I think people tend to talk/whisper quietly in waiting rooms. If you are like my OH (he is also hard of hearing) you possibly talk louder than you realise. Perhaps he was embarrassed by the comment about one of their doctors.
I can hear OH having conversations on his phone from some distance, and sometimes have to tell him to stop shouting!

Not in my dr's waiting room....everyone chats..

Maybe he was worried in case someone called you out as racist for commenting that the doc had a foreign name.

We are all walking on egg shells in our own country……..

I mean, are there unwritten rules about not chatting in the doctor's waiting room?