The weirdest waiting room EVER.

OK, so my daughter visits a therapist every other week. She sees this therapist for what's really probably just teen angst, but who wants to take a chance that something's not really wrong, you know? Anyway, she has a very nice woman therapist whose office is in the back of a converted house. (The front of this converted house is the low-rent bridal salon with those freaky mannequins from a few posts back. But I digress.)

The first time we ever visited this therapist, I was stunned. Seriously....speechless. My eyes didn't know what to look at next. The whole waiting room is just CRAMMED with the most bizarre stuff, and I'm not exaggerating. Don't believe me? Take a look. Thankfully, Em's appointments are generally last of the evening so there's no one else in the waiting room. I can take pics to my heart's content. That being said, the quality of the pics is not the best. Weird Waiting Room Lady keeps it dim in there.

I thought I'd post the pics in order of weirdness, from least weird to beyond weird. The other night I had Chauncey with me and he was highly amused.

Number 6 and low on the overall weird scale, is a large aquarium. What's really weird about it is the two gigantic orange fish. They totally come up to the glass and stare through at you.

This therapist has a running theme of Native American stuff in her waiting room. There's the ever-popular "dream-catcher" and lots of posters and prints. There's also Number 5, this eerie doll. Check out her coy expression and dusty plastic hair. (Gag. You just know she gets up and wanders around the place at night. And then plus, I look at her and wonder if anyone's ever used her as a therapy doll.) Chauncey seemed to think she was nice, though.

Over on the end table, next to the only lamp in the room, there's this freaky Jesus-hand-scary-bird candy dish. Easily Number 4 on the countdown.

Again, Chauncey has no fear.

Number Three on the countdown: This extreme extension of the Native American theme: the cigar store Indian.

Oh, and I can't leave out Number Two: This enormous stuffed gorilla, sitting in an actual waiting room chair over by the fish tank. Gives the kids something to play with, or the fish something to look at, I guess.

Now, brace yourself.

All braced?

I have to leave a little space to properly introduce our Number One, absolute king of all weird things ever seen in a waiting room ever in recorded history:

an actual ride-on horse like you'd see outside the grocery store.

I've never put a quarter in this thing to see if it actually works...I'm totally trying that next time.