{"id":7576,"date":"2011-09-19T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2011-09-19T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T06:17:07","slug":"if-its-frustrating-it-must-be-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=7576","title":{"rendered":"If It’s Frustrating, It Must Be Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, for the first time in 14 years, the doctor at the base clinic stood me up.\u00a0 My appointment was at 0850; at 0920 I decided I had more important things to do.\u00a0 Clearly wires had gotten crossed; they’ve never kept me waiting more than 5 minutes before.\u00a0 I told the airman at the desk I had to leave and would call later.\u00a0 I wanted to ask her about the amateurish, illiterate sign posted in the waiting room, but considering the possibility she’d had a hand in its composition, kept my mouth shut.<\/p>\n

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Does this no-show policy of your's work both ways?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My wife is prone to compare me to my father, who was a stickler for appointment times.\u00a0 We used to joke that if he’d been shot, he’d have left a trail of blood out the door if the doctor kept him waiting … no pissant civilian was going to waste the colonel’s time.\u00a0 I sat patiently for 30 minutes, then politely explained that I had to leave.\u00a0 I am not my father.\u00a0 But I can sure understand why he was the way he was.<\/p>\n

You may have noticed my use of military time in the first paragraph (0850 instead of 8:50AM).\u00a0 I did that to point out the interesting compromise adopted by the composer of that embarrassing sign: not 0900, not 9:00AM, but 09:00.\u00a0 Great, now no one is confused!\u00a0 Or should that be everyone’s?<\/p>\n

It’s too bad.\u00a0 It wasn’t an important appointment, but I did want to get some prescriptions renewed before I turn 65 and go on Medicare.\u00a0 This was to have been my last appointment with a military doctor.\u00a0 I feel as if the door has hit me on the ass on my way out.<\/p>\n