Stranger than folk

So I'm sitting in the cardiology department at Harrogate Hospital waiting for Jan who is in for a check up. A patient is called and his wife who was sitting right opposite me and who looked rather uncomfortable said, "he won't be a minute he's just outside smoking a cigarette." I burst out laughing at this and she looked at me in an 'I know' kind of way.

Anyway as I was sitting next to the receptionist I couldn't help but hear her conversation with a patient who had phoned with a query. The receptionist was explaining the procedure that the enquirer was asking about and finished with this statement, "no it's not dangerous." She put the phone down and we looked at each other and giggled.