WTF Is Wrong with the Goddamned Neurotypicals?
Hi, folks. Last week I spent some time in the chair at the oral surgeon's shop getting a tooth yanked. He shot my gums full of Novocaine and left the room for a while. Looking around, I spied a lead apron, for protection against x-rays, hanging on the wall. I went over and grabbed it, lay back in the chair with it lying on me, and felt immensely soothed. Bastard came back in a little while later, snatched it off me and hung it back up. One would think the guy would want his patients to feel calm and relaxed with that good deep pressure, but no, he was shocked, shocked, I tell you, that I took my comfort into my own hands.
The week before that, my very own dentist, who is VERY good at his job and has treated me for a decade or three, laid the lead apron upon me while taking an x-ray picture. After he was done, he removed it and hung it up, in spite of my earnest entreaties that he not do so. What harm would have come to anybody by leaving it on me?
It gets worse. Thanks to the benevolence of a friend, I was able to take my aged kitteh to the Vet for the first time in many years yesterday. I quizzed the Vet about why he hadn't answered my emails, for years. I think he said something like, "I don't do emails; I prefer phone calls.
I am just the opposite, preferring email to the telephone. Why do I have to talk to people on the Goddamned Telephone if I do not want to do so? I never answer the thing if I can help it, unless I have recently lost a model airplane with my phone number on it.
I have seen some discussion on the 'net about the curious reluctance of Vets to communicate by email. My own hypothesis about this, is that they are afraid of the Crazy Cat Ladies annoying them and seeking free advice.
My advice to Vets is to Man Up and post y'all's email addies. If somebody emails you soliciting free Veterinary Advice, just answer right back, in this vein:
"I don't give free professional advice by email, or in any other medium. Are you tryin' to break my rice bowl, or what? Say, what do you think of the Red Sox's chances this year?"
P.s. As a professing Christian, when I wrote "Goddamned" above, I did so advisedly.
The week before that, my very own dentist, who is VERY good at his job and has treated me for a decade or three, laid the lead apron upon me while taking an x-ray picture. After he was done, he removed it and hung it up, in spite of my earnest entreaties that he not do so. What harm would have come to anybody by leaving it on me?
It gets worse. Thanks to the benevolence of a friend, I was able to take my aged kitteh to the Vet for the first time in many years yesterday. I quizzed the Vet about why he hadn't answered my emails, for years. I think he said something like, "I don't do emails; I prefer phone calls.
I am just the opposite, preferring email to the telephone. Why do I have to talk to people on the Goddamned Telephone if I do not want to do so? I never answer the thing if I can help it, unless I have recently lost a model airplane with my phone number on it.
I have seen some discussion on the 'net about the curious reluctance of Vets to communicate by email. My own hypothesis about this, is that they are afraid of the Crazy Cat Ladies annoying them and seeking free advice.
My advice to Vets is to Man Up and post y'all's email addies. If somebody emails you soliciting free Veterinary Advice, just answer right back, in this vein:
"I don't give free professional advice by email, or in any other medium. Are you tryin' to break my rice bowl, or what? Say, what do you think of the Red Sox's chances this year?"
P.s. As a professing Christian, when I wrote "Goddamned" above, I did so advisedly.
posted by Justthisguy at 4/25/2012 08:59:00 AM
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P.s. To be clear, my dentist did not take the x-ray picture. His female assistant did that. The dentist does, I think, believe I'm weird for liking the thing lying upon me. I will never understand the Normal mind.
I also will never understand why the assistants of male dentists are always female, without exception.
P.p.s. Sorry about that, Dr. G. I humbly beg yer pardon.
Never apologize. Gibbs says it's a sign of weakness, and I believe him.
I'll posit that I do not understand Socialists, much less those who support them. What gets me the most is that these stupid fokkers are allowed to breed, and then pass on their stupidity to those spawned. We now have generations of stupid fokkers believing Socialism is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Only, the bread is moldy!
I should post a rant against stupid people, and Socialists in general, just because there's no saving society until they're gone...which, means doing something socially unacceptable in most circles. The bitch of it is, Stalin did that and saved himself a shit ton of grief. Oh my, now there's a conundrum. yes?
Okay. I'm done for the night...moderation hell has set in.
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