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Being wrong: my favourite.
Aug. 26th, 2012 06:43 pmSo, I saw my Dr. and she wants to do a thing (simple) and I don't want to (I think there are complications she hasn't considered[1]), so she is recommending me to a special clinic. It has been two weeks, and I sort of expected to have been called by now, with the initial appointment date, even if that date was bazillions of years in the future. But, not yet.
So, while I was away to Tappen, there was a little anomoly with our answering machine - so maybe something has gone missing. Or, they are a very busy clinic, booked ages in advance, so maybe they don't call until closer to the date.
So, I could call, and say that our answering machine was fritzy, and I was just checking to make sure I hadn't missed a message. But, you know, if they are a madly busy clinic, they may get people calling with this excuse as a ruse to get moved up the schedule, and it may piss them off. Or, you know, they may feel that they *should* have called me by now, but circumstances have prevented them, but they feel guilty about it, so the phone call will feel like a not so suble prod, and that may piss them off. Or, maybe they are madly busy, and they really wouldn't have gotten to the point of phoning me yet, and they will feel that I should wait patiently, and they will be pissed off. I would, as indeed I know some on my list understand, prefer to wait for their call.
But hey. Say they have called, and left a message which has poofed, and I do nothing and miss the appointment. Well, there will be a missed appointment fee, for one thing. And they will feel that I am not taking them seriously. And I will also miss the appointment. And they won't believe that my answering machine was fritzy.
But I don't want to call because no doubt there are automated message trees (if you know the middle name of your practitioner, please press pound; if you know their astrological sign, please spell it in Swahili ... [2] ), and I will bugger it up. And once I actually get to speak with someone, I will gibble and be misunderstood and exasperate them by taking toooooooooooo long.
And basically, no matter what has happened regarding whether or not they have phoned already, somebody is going to be annoyed with me interferring with the smooth progression of their process.
I don't wanna call.
Tomorrow, after I get home from work, if there is no message, I will call and leave a message for them - that way I can write out what I want to say, and say it without hitch because I will be reading it, and I will not be interrupted in mid wibble.
I don't wanna call.
[1] - she is a very rushed individual; things outside of well-worn grooves are time-eaters, which are just not permitted on the schedule of a Dr. in BC
[2] - well, it might as well be: I have to look at the phone to press the right keys for the letters, but since I don't have the phone pressed to my ear, I can't hear whether or not I have miskeyed, or been pre-empted by an autocomplete - stupid system - this idea was thought up by people who expect other people to still have dial phones, with a handset, and a body with the numbers/letters on it. Duh.
So, while I was away to Tappen, there was a little anomoly with our answering machine - so maybe something has gone missing. Or, they are a very busy clinic, booked ages in advance, so maybe they don't call until closer to the date.
So, I could call, and say that our answering machine was fritzy, and I was just checking to make sure I hadn't missed a message. But, you know, if they are a madly busy clinic, they may get people calling with this excuse as a ruse to get moved up the schedule, and it may piss them off. Or, you know, they may feel that they *should* have called me by now, but circumstances have prevented them, but they feel guilty about it, so the phone call will feel like a not so suble prod, and that may piss them off. Or, maybe they are madly busy, and they really wouldn't have gotten to the point of phoning me yet, and they will feel that I should wait patiently, and they will be pissed off. I would, as indeed I know some on my list understand, prefer to wait for their call.
But hey. Say they have called, and left a message which has poofed, and I do nothing and miss the appointment. Well, there will be a missed appointment fee, for one thing. And they will feel that I am not taking them seriously. And I will also miss the appointment. And they won't believe that my answering machine was fritzy.
But I don't want to call because no doubt there are automated message trees (if you know the middle name of your practitioner, please press pound; if you know their astrological sign, please spell it in Swahili ... [2] ), and I will bugger it up. And once I actually get to speak with someone, I will gibble and be misunderstood and exasperate them by taking toooooooooooo long.
And basically, no matter what has happened regarding whether or not they have phoned already, somebody is going to be annoyed with me interferring with the smooth progression of their process.
I don't wanna call.
Tomorrow, after I get home from work, if there is no message, I will call and leave a message for them - that way I can write out what I want to say, and say it without hitch because I will be reading it, and I will not be interrupted in mid wibble.
I don't wanna call.
[1] - she is a very rushed individual; things outside of well-worn grooves are time-eaters, which are just not permitted on the schedule of a Dr. in BC
[2] - well, it might as well be: I have to look at the phone to press the right keys for the letters, but since I don't have the phone pressed to my ear, I can't hear whether or not I have miskeyed, or been pre-empted by an autocomplete - stupid system - this idea was thought up by people who expect other people to still have dial phones, with a handset, and a body with the numbers/letters on it. Duh.
