I Miss Waiting Room Magazines

Posted by Bastard1066@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Sitting in the doctors office and the only choice is some lame reality TV or my phone. I miss the glossy magazines, the trashy columns, the reader mail. I just miss it. That's all.

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WendyPortledge@reddit

I haven’t touched those dirty magazines since being a child. I never understood why any adult would want to touch a thing other sick people touched.

All my medical practitioners have magazines or books to read.

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ElizardbethBennet@reddit

Me too - I actually am still a subscriber to a few print magazines and I absolutely love getting them in the mail. It’s such a nice treat for it not to be all bills occasionally

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Blackbird136@reddit

Can I ask which ones you get? I’ve been recently considering this myself.

Especially considering at the drugstore ONE magazine is like $8 but a year’s subscription is $20-$30. 🤪

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jeng52@reddit

Not OP, but I get the New Yorker, Real Simple, Atlantic, Coastal Living, and Kiplinger

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ElizardbethBennet@reddit

Yeah I have been getting Cook’s Country, but they just announced they are shutting down and will start sending cook’s illustrated instead which is a bummer. I also get vogue and Elle for funsies

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Cinderhazed15@reddit

Only time I ever read ‘cat fancy’ magazines!

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JudgeJuryEx78@reddit

My gyno has them. Granted, they are several different issues of the same magazine or two, but how many am I going to read anyway?

Went to a clinic several years ago that just had bibles sitting around. 🙄

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

The gym my wife and I go to still has the local paper in the waiting area.

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JudgeJuryEx78@reddit

I love when hotels have a free newspaper. A local paper and a USA today...or in nicer hotels a free Wall Street Journal.i live sitting there with my WSJ feeling fancy.

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I was traveling a couple months ago and browsed the magazines in one of those snack/book stores and I could not believe how THIN magazines are these days. Even the slag rags like US and Star were half their usual size. It amazed me.

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Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit

I miss the graffiti that came along with them

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smooth_grooves@reddit

You can help keep magazines alive by subscribing to them. Then, just bring a latest issue with you to the doctor's office to have that experience again.

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DStew713@reddit

My mother still has a subscription to People Magazine.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Reading the current incarnation of our favorite magazines is a reminder why we migrated to the internet.

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Verbull710@reddit

There's probably an app that will let you flip through your phone as if it were a magazine

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peekaboooobakeep@reddit

Libby app for libraries. They let me borrow all the magazines. But it's not the same feeling.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

👆👆👆

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dogtor_howl@reddit

My dentist has all the good mags, and it’s a joy.

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Intstnlfortitude@reddit

I learned so much about cars from the magazines in my doctors office! Autoguide, motor trend car and driver he had em all lol

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violetstrainj@reddit

I’ve had to go to a lot of doctors in the last year, and I always bring a book. My phone does not get good reception in the inner sanctum of the basement of the hospital.

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supergooduser@reddit

Kind of related... a podcast that debunks conspiracy theories I listen to made a good point... back in the day crazies had to write letters to the editor and be bold enough to print their name and address.

And honestly, I genuinely respect THAT level of crazy.

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