Time is Money...
Okay, I steal.
Have you been to the doctor's lately? How long do you wait? Have you noticed that in the past couple of years the waiting room is where you actually spend your time rather than with the actual doctor? I have waited 30-45 minutes on average and you know what?? I'm sick of it.
Doctors, unhappy with the high cost of malpractice insurance, are overbooking themselves to offset the cost. Heaven forbid that yacht payment is late. So, when you're scheduled at 2:15 so aren't about 5 others. And specialists?? Apparently the higher up on the food chain a doctor is, the longer you get to wait for him.
So I started stealing to keep myself occupied and for a little poetic justice.
Here's what I do to kill the time:
After the initial and acceptable 10 minute wait, I take something. A pen. A magazine. Something the doc didn't pay for, but was given to them as a business incentive.
Every 15 minutes that I wait, something becomes mine. I figure, my time is money too. If I had not showed up or was as late as the amount of time I had waited, I would be charged for the appointment and pehaps not even allowed back. I didn't get 24 hour notice that His Majesty was running 2 hours behind, so "Hey, thanks for the nice pen Doc!"
Yesterday, my loot included: 2 pens, Entertainment Weekly, 10 surgical gloves, a cardboard stand up thingy about anemia and a magnet. Luckily I didn't have to wait more as my purse was getting pretty full.
That's 90 minutes of waiting for those keeping track. Just my way of winning one for the little guy.
I'm thinking that the next visit to my GYN should keep me in cool pens for the next year or so.
Have you been to the doctor's lately? How long do you wait? Have you noticed that in the past couple of years the waiting room is where you actually spend your time rather than with the actual doctor? I have waited 30-45 minutes on average and you know what?? I'm sick of it.
Doctors, unhappy with the high cost of malpractice insurance, are overbooking themselves to offset the cost. Heaven forbid that yacht payment is late. So, when you're scheduled at 2:15 so aren't about 5 others. And specialists?? Apparently the higher up on the food chain a doctor is, the longer you get to wait for him.
So I started stealing to keep myself occupied and for a little poetic justice.
Here's what I do to kill the time:
After the initial and acceptable 10 minute wait, I take something. A pen. A magazine. Something the doc didn't pay for, but was given to them as a business incentive.
Every 15 minutes that I wait, something becomes mine. I figure, my time is money too. If I had not showed up or was as late as the amount of time I had waited, I would be charged for the appointment and pehaps not even allowed back. I didn't get 24 hour notice that His Majesty was running 2 hours behind, so "Hey, thanks for the nice pen Doc!"
Yesterday, my loot included: 2 pens, Entertainment Weekly, 10 surgical gloves, a cardboard stand up thingy about anemia and a magnet. Luckily I didn't have to wait more as my purse was getting pretty full.
That's 90 minutes of waiting for those keeping track. Just my way of winning one for the little guy.
I'm thinking that the next visit to my GYN should keep me in cool pens for the next year or so.
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