Thistle Down
“He always had to wait for his appointments to review the drug samples the volunteer physicians dispensed and to explain the new pills his company needed him to get them to try.
Nurse Edwards appeared at the door to the inner sanctum. Dick started to rise, grabbing his case along the way. But she beckoned the teen with the bloody elbow and forearm instead. “Skateboarding without pads again, Josh?” she quipped.
Dick settled back into his chair, squirming to find a more comfortable position. Yeah,... he had an appointment, but patients came before pharmaceutical salesmen.
At least no one else had come in for the last half hour. Maybe he really would get to see the doctor on duty soon. In preparation, he pulled up a spreadsheet on his netbook showing all the samples he’d left here in the past six months and the ones he’d retrieved because they expired before anyone got around to prescribing them.
He couldn’t concentrate. Images of Thistle in her purple-flowered sundress dancing in his arms last night kept morphing into his faulty memory of the girl with purple hair he’d kissed .MoreLess
Nurse Edwards appeared at the door to the inner sanctum. Dick started to rise, grabbing his case along the way. But she beckoned the teen with the bloody elbow and forearm instead. “Skateboarding without pads again, Josh?” she quipped.
Dick settled back into his chair, squirming to find a more comfortable position. Yeah,... he had an appointment, but patients came before pharmaceutical salesmen.
At least no one else had come in for the last half hour. Maybe he really would get to see the doctor on duty soon. In preparation, he pulled up a spreadsheet on his netbook showing all the samples he’d left here in the past six months and the ones he’d retrieved because they expired before anyone got around to prescribing them.
He couldn’t concentrate. Images of Thistle in her purple-flowered sundress dancing in his arms last night kept morphing into his faulty memory of the girl with purple hair he’d kissed .MoreLess
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