World Patient Queue Day
A day for the line at the shop, clinic, station, office, or counter, and the social art of waiting well.
Tunisia Edition
World Patient Queue Day leads today's complete edition for Tunisia.
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A day for the line at the shop, clinic, station, office, or counter, and the social art of waiting well.
Your eyes feel like sandpaper when the morning light hits the wall. You hit snooze three times and promise yourself you will get up next. The coffee sits on your desk and does nothing to fix the fog.
You choose the side street instead of the main road today. Your pace slows down enough to see the paint peeling on the door. Drivers rush past and never see the small garden growing in the crack.
A day for clearing the surface, finding the note, opening the notebook, and giving the workday a better beginning.
A day for washing the thing people refill every day and forget to clean often enough.
You witness Saharan fenec foxes, addax antelope, and Barbary macaques inhabiting Algeria's deserts and mountains. You see that people commonly keep dogs, cats, and budgerigars as beloved pets.