The Hospital Office

Humor brightens up a grim place, even a hospital ER. I recently spent 12 hours in an emergency room trying to get my ailing Dad some 'emergency' care. There were clearly far too few nurses for the steady influx of patients. Just like other offices, I thought, too few workers to get the job done right.
I listened to grown men groan and children wail. I marveled at the nurses heroically rushing about trying to juggle priorities. I heard the curse when the computer froze and the printer jammed. Amid the din, an announcement piped across the public address system: "Staff, patients and visitors invited to a free Mozart concert in the front lobby at noon."
Two nurses at the workstation stopped and laughed. One said, "What do they expect us to do? Drop everything and go and listen to music?" They both laughed, shook their heads and went back to work.
I tried to think of some of the other funny things that were probably said that I didn't hear. All those comic moments that can make a grim place a little brighter.