No joke!!!! Those places are nasty! It's like a preschool for sick kids! Blech!!
I used to go to the pediatric clinic to get allergy shots (yes, I know). I wasn't sick but I was so grossed out at being near sick kids, even though I was in a different waiting room in the back, mostly empty but sometimes sick kids would wait while their parents were paying. Snotty noses and coughs galore! Gross........