i 'd been behind the fiftyish gennette in line at the superette food mart only the week before and had heard ( as had everyone else in a five-foot radius ) about how hard it was to work for a woman , how young dr. thrush was n't accepting the wisdom she ( gennette ) had attained with years of experience , at which point i had tuned out and read the headlines on the tabloids instead , since they had more entertainment value .