{"id":1635,"date":"2010-10-27T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:44:41","slug":"waiting-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Waiting in Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So I&#8217;m vendoring at a conference and invariably there&#8217;s a line at the ladies room.\u00a0 Even more so at the conferences I go to since they&#8217;re about 99% women in the health profession (so.. heavyset and matriarchal!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And also, per usual, the air conditioning is blasting enough to slow the metabolism of large velocirapters (obviously to stave off an attack).\u00a0\u00a0 And I&#8217;m dressed for the local weather of summer!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I&#8217;m standing in line, waiting for the bathroom, having had my one cup of coffee and needing my usual second &#8220;constitutional&#8221; for the day.\u00a0 (TMI?\u00a0 Too bad.)\u00a0 I&#8217;m good, I&#8217;m\u00a0 pleasant, lines don&#8217;t bother me.\u00a0 Talking and joking I&#8217;m the quintessential sales woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally its my turn and I almost began to giggle when I sat down to do my &#8220;bizness&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The seat is toasty warm!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ah, the perk of waiting in line!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m vendoring at a conference and invariably there&#8217;s a line at the ladies room.\u00a0 Even more so at the conferences I go to since they&#8217;re about 99% women in the health profession (so.. heavyset and matriarchal!) And also, per &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}