Wandering The Hospital

Too tired to do reviews, so I swiped a true-life story of mine from the depths of Deja.wesuck. I originally posted it to alt.religon.kibology about two hours after it happened to me.

Editor's Note: Yes, I know I overeacted to the Snickers bit. And there might be some typos in here. Forgive me. Have a cookie.

So I wake up today. There I am. Awake. I wonder, "Caffiene? Where Caffiene?" I stagger about some because I didn't have to go into work until 5. I decide there will be no caffiene in the house so I go back to bed. Bad move. No caffiene means my skull wants to pop out of my head. I get up and distract the monkey by getting on the computer. Somewhere during all this I learned my sister is at the hospital, having her kid. But since my brother is at work, I wouldn't be able to go.
So naturally my brother comes home and we head in. And head in. Seems we're going to the Hospital At The End Of The Earth.
We finally get to where we're going. The hospital looks like one of those generic science facillities you see on 'Sliders' or 'Seven Days'. Scattered outside are huge looking boulders, like God's dog crapped all over the place.
Inside was even weirder. Imagine a thin, two-floor mall. With windows on the inside walls. (Seager probably knows which hospital this is). Me and bro get in an elevator and wander down a creepy looking carpeted hallway. I see my dad and have him point me in the direction of the vending machines. All I want at that time is caffiene. My sister and brother give me money so I can get snickers. (At least...I don't know. Chronological order was still fuzzy).
I plunder down some stairs and come to the end of the hallway I was first in. Vending machines on the right, some mis-matched, closed down cafeteria behind it.
I put in the money for the Snickers.
Whiir...whiir...WHAT? It got stuck! GOD! So I put in more money. Whiir....clunk! Whiir..Second one got stuck! GOD! Dig out sixty five more cents. Whiir. Clunk! Whirr! Clunk!
Whirr.............clunk! YAY! Three snickers when I only wanted two!
Somewhere along the line I got chips. My sister, not the pregnant one, had to pop the top half with the thingie on the bottom (god, it's later) because the bag landed on it's .... uh, head.
I spent the rest of the time going back up and back down the stairs to get snacks, newspaper, books. Yes, books. For some reason they were trying to get rid of a few boxes of books. I got a Sideny Sheldon book, 'Space' by Michner, 'Interview With A Vampire', 'Lestat', 'Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man' and some other things.
Up and down. Up and down. Alone. Then I read my Buffy book.
I only got to see my sister for a few minutes. She was in the hallway, leaning up against the wall. Her hubby and mom-in-law were there. Apparently wall-leaning was recommended by the doc, who had a name that sounded like forks being dropped and according to my mom, looked like a high schooler.
Then I went to work where I felt like the Apocalypse was coming but I think it was just the weather. I still don't know whether the kid is out yet.
P.S. The baby's name is going to be 'Sky'. I might as well start a savings account for therapists bills now.

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