Spanish Homework conundrum

[Dmsatdawn]

I’m flummoxed with my Spanish homework (not asking on behalf of a child, I’m 67) - it’s driving me mad now. Next lesson is a week away. Sorry it’s a bit long but not sure what is relevant here. Here’s the scenario:

Woman walks into a seemingly prosperous doctors office at 12.45 - he has 3 secretaries taking calls/bookings/queries etc and remarks on how ordinary the room is - table with magazines for men and women and 4 corner tables each with a lamp.

Patients start to enter - all with (I think) minor complaints (headache/stomach ache broken arm) and she sits near them to listen to their conversations. They are mostly calm but fidgety and pass the time looking at their watches and talking to each other.

Meanwhile the room is filling up with more patients until it’s full.

At 1.30 the doctor appears from his room and a secretary calls their names one by one. Each one goes into the consulting room and emerges a few minutes later, books another appointment and goes home. This goes on all afternoon… until

The secretary notices this lady hasn’t been called and asks her name - she tells her - says she has no appointment and would she like to book one. She says no thanks, I’m not ill. Secretary says we close at 6 and you’ll have to leave. She says that’s ok.

The question is: what was she doing in the doctors office?

What has this riddle got to do with Spanish?

Tax inspector?

I don't know but I'm intrigued!

Are you expected to just make something up to talk about in Spanish or is there supposed to be an actual answer?

Buying a kilo of tomatoes?

She's in the wrong riddle and should have walked up the post office steps.

She's trying to learn Spanish by listening to real people speaking??

She was a dr? Wife of Dr? Ex? I have no idea.

This is not like any language homework I've ever had.

Auditor? Some sort of assessor?

@EBearhug yes I thought that but is that a thing in Spain? The text was in Spanish, which I translated and had to answer questions based on it.
@HousedInMySoul She has a Spanish name Isabel Pereira so probably not.
@ApolloandDaphne Its a direct translation from Spanish with questions to be answered from the text

I guess it depends on how the op translated it.

She's an undercover police officer or someone after dome sort of information as she sits near people to listen to their conversations. Maybe she is just after some company.

Many Spanish seem to treat a visit to the doctor as some kind of social outing. They go en masse and there's a lot of noise. A friend has an elderly aunt who hangs out in the doctor's waiting room often, just for company.

On the other hand, with all the guff about it being prosperous, three secretaries and corner tables with lamps I'm not sure the woman is the point of the riddle.

Que ida de olla.

Have you translated something from Spanish which maybe has more than one meaning and you've selected the wrong one?

Can you post the Spanish version?

You’re gonna have to take a photo of the text in Spanish sorry…

Absolutely no helpful suggestions but placemarking because I'm baffled and hope that someone can post an answer - even if we have to wait a week until the op had been to her next lesson.

The horse's name is Friday.

Can you post a picture of the original Spanish text?

She can’t afford to heat her house, she lives on her own, so by spending the afternoon there she gets warmth and human company.

She is the Dr's wife, waiting to give him a lift home.

Isabel Pereira has wandered across the border from Portugal. The clocks are a different timezone and there is some sort of timewarp going on here.

Or from Galicia.

Here’s the text

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