I showed up at 8:30 this morning for my sons 8:45 doctor appointment. They got me in to an exam room at 10:00 and I didn’t see the Doc until 10:15! Here’s a clue: If you are 90 minutes behind just 45 minutes after you open for the day, you need to re-examin your process!
One of the (several) reasons for dumping my now-previous primary care doctor was this kind of crap. If your office opens at 8:30am, and I’m there for my 8:40am appointment, there’s really no fucking excuse for you to finally wander into my little holding cell at 9:30am.
Years ago, I very audibly dumped a chiropractor because he decided to keep me waiting over an hour on my lunch time. I went to him because he was so close to my job and he could get me in over lunch. Then he got so tied up with a new patient that he completely ignored the rest of us waiting there (and all of us expecting to have to get back to work at some point). So I walked out, said something loudly about it being my lunch hour and how I didn’t care to be kept waiting like that. He stepped out of the room he was in and stated that he was busy with a new patient and would get to me as soon as he could. I said no, I’m done waiting, I have a job I need to get back to, and I guess I’ll find someone who keeps better track of their appointments.
Later, his people called me and tried to apologize, but I explained that it hadn’t been the first time I’d been kept waiting, that some of us worked too and sometimes had issues explaining why we were late coming back, and I was tired of it and didn’t appreciate the half-assed not-helpful answer I got when I raised the issue of being made to wait so long. So we were done. I found another guy who got to me within 5 minutes of my appointment time every time and didn’t try to con me with the ‘come back every 3 days forever’ crap.
So hey, jogger guy, this Multi-Use Trail is only about 8-10 feet wide on average and it gets pretty crowded with walkers, joggers, cyclists like me and now they’ve added rentable Surreys.
Now, because the Surreys caused some issues on the trail so the Park added a nice yellow line down the center of the trail so that you would know where the center was. Just like in a car on a road you should be on the right side of that yellow line. Preferably well to the right of the line but that isn’t always possible. I understand.
But where you shouldn’t be? Running right down the yellow line like you were a slot car and it was your slot. That’s about the worst thing you could be doing! You tromp along with your gaze fixed solely at the line while doing a poor job passing walkers and making it very hard for rollerbladers and cyclists to pass you.
Making it much worse is that your jogging style…umm… needs work. Pumping your arms is a part of jogging, but you seem to have added ‘random elbow flailing’ to the process. Honestly you look like the jogging version of a chicken dance, and I saw those elbows almost went into a walking couple you were passing.
Frankly, you are very bad at this ‘jogging on a shared path’ thing and i think you should refrain from jogging in public until you figure out how to do it properly. I’ve encountered you three times since September and I’d rather not have you as part of my regular commute encounters.
My favourite fellow multi-use path users are the ones who steadfastly walk on the left and pass on the right. I don’t know why they do this; I won’t give ground to them because the rule here is walk/cycle on the right and pass on the left, and after I’ve gone by, they go straight back over to the left again. How many times do you have to see how everyone else uses the path before it clicks in your brain that you’re doing it wrong?
You have more patience than I do. I would have left at the one hour mark.
Do you think the doctor would see you if you arrived over an hour late?
go to a lawyer and get a medical power of attorney for her as soon as possible - if she really needs someone with say instantly she needs one locally. Also, if she doesn’t have all her options stated in paperwork, she can’t be sure it willg et done in emergency.
My guess is that they’re rich tourists from the US. They figure since you guys are a foreign country, the road rules must be backwards.
And they figure everybody else is a US tourist too, and they’re SO PROUD that they’re the only ones doing it right…
Sounds like you struck gold right there, leaving out everything else.
Roddy
You’re a lovely guy, and you’ve always been a lot of fun to hang round with, but it would have been nice to mention that you have a new girlfriend that I didn’t know about before coming on what I thought was a date.
sigh
Huh. Down here, they don’t build in the flood plains (anymore - there are some homes that would be in danger if we got a 100 year flood). I guess you all get more water than we do so more areas are flood plain? 
At the risk of sounding like a horrible racist, the people I see doing this seem almost universally to be Asian.
Mouth is full of ulcers again. This sucks. Again
Thank you, aru, very good advice. I was advised similarly in an advice thread I started when I found out about everything last month. I’ll talk to her about it.
We get more water…but we send plenty of it down south to you guys, too. Especially since we’ve built in the flood plains and there’s nowhere else for it to go. 
I’m cranky today.
It may be PMS. It may be over-tiredness (one thing that’s often linked with PMS for me-- bad sleep(although there are other complications as well).
But the PMS part worries me, because I leave town Thursday and return Sunday and there will be lots of time in between when urgent needs for a toilet will be inconvenient. (Really, I’m not so concerned about needing a place to change a tampon as um, other things. )
I am very tired of having vivid and semi-disturbing dreams every night that leave me very tired because they keep waking me up.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Oh happy day! I get to spend a fucking six thousand dollars today to get a new fucking boiler because the one I had to replace less than ten years ago broke. Fuck you plumber for looking so happy about this fact. Fuck you asshole who installed the first boiler and did so such a lousy job of it initially. Fuck you Peerless for not getting back to us at all about any possible warrantee we may have.
:rolleyes:
I don’t suppose that bunny kisses would help, would they? If not - which I assume is the case, otherwise derma med journals would blow up - would you accept a reciprocal internet hug?
{{{{{{ madrabbitwoman }}}}}}
If you were in the DFW area I’d point you towards the grief counselor I’ve been seeing, who gives the best IRL hugs I’ve ever experienced. I believe you’re northwards of me, in which case:
{{{{{{ madrabbitwoman }}}}}} again
… and maybe we’ll meet someday. I gotta get outta this heat.
I went out for dinner on Monday and ordered some wine as we were looking at the menus.
Then we ordered our meals long with another bottle of wine.
The appetizers come out along with the second bottle of wine.
Then nothing for almost an hour. We are almost done with the second bottle of wine when they ask if we would like another bottle with our meal.
This happens all the time. Its like they are purposely delaying our meals so that we will order more wine than we otherwise might. I don’t mind getting an extra bottle of wine, I mind having to sit there drinking the wine with very little food in my stomach so they can boost their profit margin on a monday.
What the fuck is up with that!!! Is it just my imagination or are they in fact delaying my meal to squeeze an extra bottle of wine out of me?
… is not ordering more wine, and perhaps saying “hey, where’s our food?” out of the question?