Husband wanted some compost so he could do some potting. "Okay, I'll get you some."
"How much did you get?"
"Three bags, 150 litres all together."
"Oh. I usually get several hundred litres," he said as I struggled up the steps with a 50 litre bag.
Some people like to push their luck.
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It was a sad day when they stopped having magazines in surgery waiting rooms. Husband had to see the GP this morning and he was running late so we sat and waited for about thirty minutes. I daren't read the notice-board or I'll discover I have asthma, COPD, dementia, whooping cough, and all manner of other diseases.
Anyway, the GP he saw was the very image of a mad professor. Thinning hair all over the place, his glasses on the bridge of his nose while he held paper up to his face and squinted at it, a broken blood pressure machine - incidentally, the one he found to replace it was the blow up by hand type - and a lack of blood test forms.
But apart from that he was fine. Tomorrow Husband has two hospital appointments neither of which is heart related! Podiatrist in the morning and a check-up on his ear in the afternoon. Of course he can't drive at the moment so I have to take him everywhere, a fact he should remember when he thinks about making another 'helpful' suggestion.
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Back to my Ocean Life jigsaw and I discover there's a fish called Lookdown, for obvious reasons, and a zebra-striped fish called Sheepshead, for less obvious reasons.
17 comments:
I was in a doctor waiting room recently, and it was fun to read a year-old magazine (with none of the political drama that's going on).
When I first met the surgeon who was to do my colon surgery, he gave every appearance of being a classic absent-minded professor. He did not, shall we say, inspire confidence. I was worried that he would leave the scalpel and some gauze in me. But I don't THINK he did.
Waiting is tiring. I hope tomorrow's appointments run to time. Two in one day is a lot to cope with.
There have not been magazines in a few of our Dr's for awhile I try to travel with a book. Your husband has energy that's for sure so he must be feeling better.
Cathy
He's a luck-pusher for sure. Personal phones have replaced magazines.
Yes, I love the celebrity mags!
You may never know, Debra!
Yes and boring.
Good idea, Cathy.
Tell me about it.
The last time I was in a doctors waiting room they had magazines but none of them were anything I was interested in reading.
Doctor waiting rooms are usually home to outdoor boring mags. I don't miss them. But one of my doctors had some nice kids toys, too. Which I played with. Testing them for quality control.
I once had a dr who took a thermometer out of his pocket and tried to answer it as if it were a phone. That was a bit scary. I'm glad he wasn't a surgeon.
Love,
Janie
I laughed at the potting soil scene. Men!
That's disappointing.
Who hasn't done that?!
Indeed, Marie. Men!
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