Close to Home by John McPherson for January 13, 2015

Wow! Collectors’ editions!

I had a 1957 Marlyn Monroe,Playboy,mint cond.HAD is the operative word. :( Peace.

Oldest magazine I ever found in a doctor’s office dated back around the mid-nineties, and that was back when we had only just left them. And even then, that was something of an irregularity for me; most of the doctors in my area seem to be pretty good keeping their magazines up to date within only a couple of years.

I can’t remember ever seeing a magazine older than a year in a doctor’s office, but can’t say I paid that much attention either. I learned a long time ago, it is better to bring your own reading material.However, this would have been a great game for my homeschooled kids when they were learning how to read dates. (Assuming I took them with me, they came to some of my doctor appointments, just depended on what type of exam.)

I found some old Life or Look magazines in an antique shop, with Nixon and Kennedy on the covers (so something like 50 years old). I bought a few of them, and planted one in my dentist’s waiting room for a lark!

…..A bet was placed by all participants as to who had the bottle the furthest from the town we were in. It would get down to a micrometer on a map at times. ……-Reminded me of “dollar serial number poker”.

But the office staff (or the doctors themselves) are very diligent at removing the address parts of the old magazines.

Our doctor’s waiting room has mostly “health” magazines, which I guess his medical suppliers leave. Ho-hum!