Went to the doctors today. Some basic tests to allay my irrational fears of illnesses that I probably don’t have. In any event, whilst sitting in the waiting room, I came to a painful realization. I don’t know why, but doctors insist on having fish tanks in the waiting room. I suppose its supposed to be relaxing, the gentle bubbling of the water, watching the fish swim serenely around the tank and what not. However in this office’s case, the well intended tank of fish had the exact opposite effect on me. This tank, like cities around the world suffered from serious overcrowding. This problem was only exacerbated by the amount of large fish in the tank. They hardly had room to wave a little fin at annoying children tapping on the tank. Due to the overpopulation of the tank, some vicious tank politics seemed to have emerged, with two dictatorial fish leaders ruling half the tank. One fool hardy fish wandered into another gangs side and had to pretend to be a rock to prevent being attacked by two larger fish from the rival gang. This was very upsetting to witness and made me wonder who I could call to help save these fish. Then I realized…NO ONE. In those annoying ASPCA commercials with montages of suffering puppies and kittens set to Sarah McLachlin songs the plight of the tropical and domesticated fish is never addressed. There is no help in sight for these poor fish trapped in a slum and so they will continue to suffer in overcrowded tanks being gawked at by idiots hypnotized by the bubble streams that take up half the tank but clearly only aggravate the poor fish trapped inside. Such injustice.
