My first post and my first annoyance is....United bloody Airlines.
I limit all of my travel to them what do I get in return? A snidy little witch telling me that i am "entitled to my comments about them, but many people just love their service, their mileage offers and their fares"
I litteraly snorted at the last bit as everyone knows that they are the most expensive airline and it's just that I'm a whore for a free upgrade that I continue to travel with them.
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| QUOTE (NeroW @ Apr 1 2005, 01:04 PM) |
My BF, who usually reads "serious" books, proclaimed himself in need of a good story and picked up an old copy of The Silence of The Lambs. For the past few days he has been imitating Hannibal Lechter. "Where's the toiletpaper we just bought?" "I don't know . . . Clarice." It is driving me nuts!  |
You'd better find the toilet paper. And watch out if he brings home some Chianti.
| QUOTE |
| You'd better find the toilet paper. And watch out if he brings home some Chianti. |
Or tells you he's having an old friend for dinner.
| QUOTE (Suzi Edwards @ Apr 1 2005, 04:40 PM) |
| My first post and my first annoyance is....United bloody Airlines. I limit all of my travel to them what do I get in return? A snidy little witch telling me that i am "entitled to my comments about them, but many people just love their service, their mileage offers and their fares" I litteraly snorted at the last bit as everyone knows that they are the most expensive airline and it's just that I'm a whore for a free upgrade that I continue to travel with them. |
I don't like United. For a while I used to ask when checking in (no matter which company I flew with) if there was a chance of an up-grade (I don't do this any longer as it doesn't seem to work any more). Anyway, on this occasion, the United staff member said sure, and I got a seat in business. Before we took off, a ground-person (one of the ones who inspect the airline and then skip off) asked to see my "voucher". Voucher? I had my seat # voucher. She said I couldn't sit in that seat if I didn't have a voucher. Turned out, United needed a flier miles voucher or somesuch (which the check-in person didn't ask for) before an upgrade was given. There was an awkward moment when I thought the United person was going to ask me to go into coach. But the plane was about to depart and she thought better of it.
Then they lost our luggage in Seattle, I think it was. It was later found.
And welcome, Suzie.
| QUOTE (Suzi Edwards @ Apr 1 2005, 01:40 PM) |
| My first post and my first annoyance is....United bloody Airlines. I limit all of my travel to them what do I get in return? A snidy little witch telling me that i am "entitled to my comments about them, but many people just love their service, their mileage offers and their fares" I litteraly snorted at the last bit as everyone knows that they are the most expensive airline and it's just that I'm a whore for a free upgrade that I continue to travel with them. |
I can't be annoyed in here, since YOU are here, and since you booked your flight to see me!
HOORAY!
Sorry, that's not very restrained, is it?
I find restraint to be very over-rated.
Odd series of mystery pains, including one in my left arm from shoulder to elbow. It seems to be worse at work, though I don't think I sit in an awkward position. I hope it's not a bruised nerve. Oh, and I'm getting 2 fillings replaced this afternoon. 
At least the rain has stopped.
At least the rain has stopped.
...to be replaced by an icy, bone-chilling cold. None of my current pains are mysteries - I can identify them all quite confidently. But I sympathise.
| QUOTE (StephanieL @ Apr 4 2005, 01:28 PM) |
| Odd series of mystery pains, including one in my left arm from shoulder to elbow. It seems to be worse at work, though I don't think I sit in an awkward position. I hope it's not a bruised nerve. Oh, and I'm getting 2 fillings replaced this afternoon. At least the rain has stopped. |
You may find this odd, but for a while I had an odd pain that started in my neck and radiated down my arm. At the same time, I was due to have a root canal owing to a “pulped-out” tooth. As soon as the root canal was complete, the pain in my neck/arm went away.
I'm just saying.
My annoyance: trying to alter a pair of lined wool trousers. What sick fuck ever came up with that idea? I mean, it's nice to keep the itch of the wool away from your skin, but have you ever really looked inside a pair or, better, tried to take them apart? My goodness, what a complicated exercise. Now that I've got them apart, I'm not sure I'll ever get them back together (in any wearable form, anyway).
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Apr 4 2005, 03:29 PM) | ||
You may find this odd, but for a while I had an odd pain that started in my neck and radiated down my arm. At the same time, I was due to have a root canal owing to a “pulped-out” tooth. As soon as the root canal was complete, the pain in my neck/arm went away. I'm just saying. |
That's interesting, because I have an impacted wisdom tooth on the same side as the arm pain (though I don't have any pain in my mouth). I'm scheduled to have that taken out at the end of the month, so we'll see if they're related.
Funny things, nerves.
i've applied for 15 jobs since the beginning of February, and i'm still unemployed. 
| QUOTE (fritz brenner @ Apr 4 2005, 03:07 PM) |
| i've applied for 15 jobs since the beginning of February, and i'm still unemployed. |
Your fantastic destiny can't be hurried.
People you dial up accidentally and explain to apologetically you have reached a wrong number but who persist in calling you back (thank you, Caller ID) for the next day or two because they are pathetic imbeciles with no lives who imagine you must be stalking them and that they must find out who you are, and who have apparently never heard of anyone simply making a mistake.
just admit it--you planned to call them.
my favorites are the geniuses who call your number thinking it belongs to someone else, are set right (with the number read back as confirmation that they have the wrong number for who they're looking for) but then call back 4 times in a row because obviously you must have been lying.
my favorites are the geniuses who call your number thinking it belongs to someone else, are set right (with the number read back as confirmation that they have the wrong number for who they're looking for) but then call back 4 times in a row because obviously you must have been lying.
some doctor who used to have my cell# hasn't changed it with his emergency dispatcher for over a year. I have been unsuccessful in obtaining the dispatcher's number (as most of the callers speak little English) and have resigned to paying a 10 minute/month "Dr. Ng tax"
I had an odd pain in my ass for a while that went away with a divorce. 
And beyond that, a credit company, having been provided with my phone number by a lazy and/or inept skip tracer, call me every two days for several weeks, each time only to establish that I share neither the address, the social security number nor even the gender of the person they wish to contact. I am now logging the calls as evidence of harassment, although frankly they are wasting their time as much as mine.
Fun fact: I was a skip tracer for a summer in college.
| QUOTE (winesonoma @ Apr 4 2005, 01:45 PM) |
| I had an odd pain in my ass for a while that went away with a divorce. |
Too bad it went away. Could have raised it in your worker's comp case.
that I can't seem to get a hang of photos...but I'm trying.
edit to ADD....yikes! I am scary!!!! ok, I'm still working on it! Carry ON.My son says it looks like one of those paintings in a haunted house, with the eyes that follow you
edit to ADD....yikes! I am scary!!!! ok, I'm still working on it! Carry ON.My son says it looks like one of those paintings in a haunted house, with the eyes that follow
you
Backing away from the screen...
Found a copy of Gerald Kersh's very rare short story collection I Got References for sale online. Sadly, it is inscribed by the author to director Zoltan Korda, and priced at $2000.00.
Found a copy of Gerald Kersh's very rare short story collection I Got References for sale online. Sadly, it is inscribed by the author to director Zoltan Korda, and priced at $2000.00.
Kim, are you Andrea Immer?
| QUOTE (yvonne johnson @ Apr 4 2005, 04:18 PM) |
| Kim, are you Andrea Immer? |
I wish I could drink like Andrea er I mean Kim
| QUOTE (Kim @ Apr 4 2005, 02:00 PM) |
| that I can't seem to get a hang of photos...but I'm trying. edit to ADD....yikes! I am scary!!!! ok, I'm still working on it! Carry ON.My son says it looks like one of those paintings in a haunted house, with the eyes that follow you |
I'm thinking this photo [maybe just slightly bigger] would be a neat reply to one of those Nigerian emails asking for the opportunity to make me rich quick.
Great haircut, Kim.
| QUOTE (yvonne johnson @ Apr 4 2005, 04:18 PM) |
| Kim, are you Andrea Immer? |
It's a real estate photo...I'm supposed to look trustworthy, open minded and hardworking..I look like a zombie. It really looks ok in the corner of a business card...I tried to make it smaller..I'll keep trying.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Apr 4 2005, 04:37 PM) |
| Great haircut, Kim. |
Actually, that's the last haircut. it's shorter now. Plus, I wear glasses, but the photographer said they won't photgraph well..I think that's why my eyes look glazed over..besides being very light colored, I can't see a thing without my glasses
| QUOTE (fritz brenner @ Apr 4 2005, 08:07 PM) |
| i've applied for 15 jobs since the beginning of February, and i'm still unemployed. |
No job is better than my job, home skillet, trust me.
You know, Starbucks pays benefits
I don't have a job and I don't miss it.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Apr 4 2005, 08:19 PM) | ||
Your fantastic destiny can't be hurried. |
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Apr 5 2005, 12:16 AM) |
| No job is better than my job, home skillet, trust me. You know, Starbucks pays benefits |
no, trust *me,* no job is not better, when you've completely run out of money. and dude, i've applied at Starbucks. it's *that* bad.
2 different accidents on the Beltway.
20 minute commute took over an hour.
20 minute commute took over an hour.
Jet -lagged, exhausted children who still won't go to sleep.
Our post office can never get it together and we always wind up with delivery for a couple days after putting in an order to hold the mail.
Our post office can never get it together and we always wind up with delivery for a couple days after putting in an order to hold the mail.
| QUOTE (JPW @ Apr 5 2005, 09:37 AM) |
| 2 different accidents on the Beltway. 20 minute commute took over an hour. |
Not to mention that I was already 15 minutes late
university campuses that are affiliated with either pepsi or coke and do not allow sales of the other. especially the ones affiliated with pepsi.
Don't know if this falls under annoyances or surrealism, but...opening the paper this morning and reading that my gynecologist, the one who operated on me in December, was successfully sued for medical malpractice. She and Quest Diagnostics were found to be co-liable for misdiagnosing/not catching a woman's case of cervical cancer until too late.
So should I change doctors? I use the nurse practitioner for yearly exams and I like her a lot, but I can't see her if something goes wrong.
So should I change doctors? I use the nurse practitioner for yearly exams and I like her a lot, but I can't see her if something goes wrong.
Stephanie, lots of good doctors are sued all the time. Sometimes the suits are successful, sometimes not. Sometimes they get publicized, sometimes not. And sometimes doctors (and labs) make mistakes.
The real question is, is this doctor good for you? Are you satisfied with the practice, the care, the attention?
Doctors are not infallable, believe me. Misdiagnoses happen for all kinds of reasons.
But one malpractice suit is really not necessarily a reason to switch. And in any case, you probably won't have access to the real issues behind the suit, or the true error (if any) that was made.
And anyway...you need to to talk to the doctor about this, and perhaps some of the other patients with experience in the practice. Nobody here can make a reasonable judgement with no facts.
The real question is, is this doctor good for you? Are you satisfied with the practice, the care, the attention?
Doctors are not infallable, believe me. Misdiagnoses happen for all kinds of reasons.
But one malpractice suit is really not necessarily a reason to switch. And in any case, you probably won't have access to the real issues behind the suit, or the true error (if any) that was made.
And anyway...you need to to talk to the doctor about this, and perhaps some of the other patients with experience in the practice. Nobody here can make a reasonable judgement with no facts.
Take the worst case: the doctor and/or lab made a mistake. Unless someone has a substance abuse problem, I'd say the doctor is going to go out of his way to be extra careful. Afterall, his malpractice premiums are going up. Compare a doctor who hasn't been sued or hasn't lost a suit. He probably isn't quite as motivated to go the extra step to avoid malpractice. Everyone makes mistakes. Good people learn from them.
But Holl, that's not fair either. There are plenty of very cautious, conservative, attentive physicians who do their very best, regardless of whether or not a lawsuit has ever come their way.
You're right. I'm just sayin'.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Apr 6 2005, 12:35 PM) |
| university campuses that are affiliated with either pepsi or coke and do not allow sales of the other. especially the ones affiliated with pepsi. |
Don't complain. They could be forcing you to drink coors.
| QUOTE (fml @ Apr 6 2005, 12:45 PM) | ||
Don't complain. They could be forcing you to drink coors. |
Or even worse Coors light.
| QUOTE (winesonoma @ Apr 6 2005, 03:20 PM) | ||||
Or even worse Coors light. |
the fact that coors is manufactured in a state that has such excellent, and so many, craft and micro breweries should go in the surrealism thread.
isn't coors made from the water they use to wash fermentation vats at actual breweries?
| QUOTE (StephanieL @ Apr 6 2005, 07:16 PM) |
| Don't know if this falls under annoyances or surrealism, but...opening the paper this morning and reading that my gynecologist, the one who operated on me in December, was successfully sued for medical malpractice. She and Quest Diagnostics were found to be co-liable for misdiagnosing/not catching a woman's case of cervical cancer until too late. So should I change doctors? I use the nurse practitioner for yearly exams and I like her a lot, but I can't see her if something goes wrong. |
Similar situation happened to my mother. Her gynecologist was sued for malpractice after the assisting nurse left a sponge in a patient. For anyone who is worked in an OR, especially in a teaching facility, it is very rare for a surgeon to actually sew up the patient. But, ultimately, if anything goes wrong, they are liable. Rightly so, as far as I'm concerned. This didn't effect his performance as a Dr at all. In fact, my sister has a procedure performed by him, and them my mom had another 2 and then I had one as well and we all felt the same way; he is a fantastic Dr and none of us could imagine seeing anyone else.
Malpractice suits happen all the time. If it is genuine neglect, chances are there is more than one case pending or settled which should all be public knowledge. Go with your gut and if you are comfortable with this Dr. then stick with them.
Actually, the last surgeon I worked for had about 20 cases of malpractice thrown out of court over the space of 6 years (It was a specialty known for having litigious patients)
Which reminds me of sitting in the delivery room holding my newborn as the ob/gyn sews up my wife's episiotomy, all the while reciting chapter and verse the horrible recent dining experience he had at a restaurant I was then working in.
If you were annoyed, imagine what was going on in your wife's mind...
Bruised sitz bones.
Every time you sit down you want to yelp, but you can't have a moan about it without getting comments like: "So, been taking on the football team again, have we?"
Oh, and wisenheimers.
Every time you sit down you want to yelp, but you can't have a moan about it without getting comments like: "So, been taking on the football team again, have we?"
Oh, and wisenheimers.
London GPs.
Today I ran for a routine, non-emergency appointment and was told that my GP has decided to ONLY take appointments on a day-before basis. Given that my diary is booked up to 2 weeks in advance, this is going to make things rather difficult.
Today I ran for a routine, non-emergency appointment and was told that my GP has decided to ONLY take appointments on a day-before basis. Given that my diary is booked up to 2 weeks in advance, this is going to make things rather difficult.
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