Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Mary's Desk

Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary."

Ms. Chatter: "I need to see Dr. Grumpy. My last neurologist moved away, and I'm trying to get my records from them so that (ramble, ramble, ramble)."

Mary: "Okay, let me see... We have an opening next Tuesday, at 3:45."

Ms. Chatter: "That won't work for me because Tuesday afternoon is when I watch my grandkids because my daughter works and her boss is an asshole because (ramble, ramble, ramble)."

Mary: "All right, what about... How's Thursday morning, at 8:00?"

Ms. Chatter: "Perfect. Mornings are always good for me because my husband walks over to the city pool to swim laps at the indoor one and I can have the car. They just opened the pool again last month, it was closed for almost a year, because I guess it had fallen behind all these state health codes and they had to set aside money to do the project, and (ramble, ramble, ramble)."

Mary: "Okay, I have that down. What insurance do you have?"

Ms. Chatter: "I'm with Sickness & Wealth HMO."

Mary: "Oh... I'm sorry. We aren't contracted with S&W."

Ms. Chatter: "WHAT? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE? YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME!"

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7 comments:

  1. CandiFebruary 3, 2015 at 8:19 AM

    Because rambling on instead of asking if the office takes your insurance isn't wasting anyone's time....

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  2. SparrowFebruary 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    Oh god, this person is my mother.

    That woman can't go through the drive-thru without telling the poor McDonald's worker her life story.

    "I'm so glad I have this coupon for a free McCafe drink. I like to order a coffee every Saturday before visiting blah blah blah and I just don't have time to brew it myself because I have three loads of laundry to do blah blah..."

    EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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  3. JillianFebruary 3, 2015 at 6:11 PM

    HAHA. This IS my mother as well!

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2015 at 7:36 PM

    Did you ever stop to think these people just might be lonely?

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 12:19 AM

    Ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now, to sing my song...

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2015 at 2:53 PM

    Note from Mary:
    .."and you are NEVER signing up for that HMO..."

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2015 at 2:45 PM

    Yepper, it's time for government-run insurance.

    I suppose she'd not support if she knew that she could get in all the ramblin' she wanted!

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So wadda you think?