I love reading and sharing the little moments and quirky things from therapy. I had a nice moment at our session earlier this week. My session is at 5 pm and I have had that timeslot for months. Anyway, a few minutes before 5 pm I show up at the waiting room, and then another guy comes in too and there we are together in T's waiting room, which he does not share with any other providers. This guy and I talk and ascertain that we both have appointments at 5:00 pm! Has T double booked? Are we going to put on our boxing gloves and duke it out? T is running late so we end up having quite a bit of time together and have a nice chat--he's a really nice guy. We're going to let T decide the matter. When T peeks out into the waiting room to say he's almost done (with the previous client), he does a double take and says to the guy, "What are you doing here?" The guy says I have a 5 pm appointment, and T says, kind of puffing out his chest and looking at me, "no you don't, you're wrong, this is a longstanding appointment" and he nods at me. It was so sweet. I kind of felt like T was defending my honor or standing up for me or telling me what a priority I was for him, or something. Anyway, it was all amicable and this double-booked guy then went away.

Another thing I learned from this other client was that he had two appointments with T this week (or so he thought) and acted like this was not uncommon. WHAT???? A client has two appointments in one week??? I didn't know my T did that. Hmmmmmm.....