Personal Narrative Essay

It was a chaotic day at the hospital, and the waiting room was packed tighter than a can of sardines. The smell of disinfectant and sweat seemed pleasant, when compared to the baby with the sagging diaper running around. Sitting with his girlfriend was Larry Goodman, a Rubeus Hagrid lookalike, minus the moleskin overcoat. He adjusted the blue hospital mask that was too tight. He couldn’t believe it, sitting here for the second time this week. But she was in pain and they told her to come back, immediately, if she had another gallbladder attack. This time it was worse, she had puked the whole way there. Larry kept pulling the bottle of sanitizer out of his pocket, and squeezing it into his hand. Larry’s eyes shifted from the coughing baby whose diaper had leaked through his pants, to another kid whose snot bubble was about to explode—right along with Larry’s patience. “Stinks in here,” Said Larry, while he emptied the last of the sanitizer into his hand. The hospital was the last place he wanted to be. The waiting, germs, people coughing, sneezing, but what he hated most of all, was the filthy kids running around. All their snot. Dirty faces. Sticky necks. Dirty diapers and parents that didn’t give a …show more content…
He was tall, slightly heavy but muscular. He sat in the barely visible orange chair with his girlfriend’s arm around his. He grabbed her hand then covered the rest of it with his other hand. He tried to show that he had patience in front of his girlfriend, which he still felt the need to impress, but the sight of goo flying out of the baby’s nose when it sneezed, was enough to turn his stomach. Larry pulled the mask down to his chin, put his hand over his mouth, and his cheeks filled up with air. Relieved that nothing came up and his spaghetti wasn’t all over the floor, he couldn’t help but to stare and be annoyed at the baby whose snot had ran down to his chin. The baby laughed, watching him struggle to get the mask back