Archive for November, 2004
An investment in quality
I have found a new addition to the quality frozen meals list.
Farmland spaghetti bolognaise,
375gm
Only $2.99
And its not bad at all
where is all the hot burning sun….I’m not borwn yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what a top bloke
i really enjoy myself, i think i’m a good bloke and i wish i could hang out with myself more often.
Tonight when i got home the house was empty, tom’s probably off in belrose and i dont know where jane and john and hannah are. But its nice. I mean i love everyone that lives here. but i’ve just spent the night with me.
I’ve had a frozen lasagne for dinner and watched a dvd. Its awsome. I really need a bit more howie time in my life.
wow i’m excited, i’ll have to send myself a thankyou sms for having such a good night.
“stinking” hot day
today was one of those days where everyone should have re-applied deoderant half way through the day
doctor doctor i’m in a hurry
When you go to a doctor they give you a poke and a prod then click their mouse a few times and out comes a prescription for some drug that their advanced doctor computer system has picked at random for you. It puts an x in the name somewhere so you think its hardcore.
Then the doctor picks up his free pen which he got from some pharmaceutical company with an advertisement for Viagra on the side of the pen. He draws a scribble as if he is a defiant pre schooler who doesn’t want to write his name so he draws a scribble out of aggression. The doctor then picks a random dosage for your medication from the random dosage chart up on his wall behind your head next to the picture of the horse drawn by some kid of his. ”umm take this 3 times” he puts his glasses on and peers past your shoulder “ 3 times a day for 2 weeks”. Then he shakes your hand. Out of the blue there is no ok thanks for coming, no no he starts with a handshake then says “thanks for coming”. And he never says “I hope you get better” no doctors don’t have any hope or belief in their own diagnosis, no instead they say “if it doesn’t get better come back”.
Then its off to the chemist.
You leave the surgery and head for the chemist. In you go past all the plaster cast dolls and fluffy toilet roll holders under the banner that says “gifts”. Past the Elastoplast section with all the bandaids and bandages and ankle straps and elbow straps and shoulder straps and knee straps. Up to the counter.
You stand their for a few minutes waiting to be served, then someone in a white coat come down to the counter from their “prescriptions” raised platform. You hand over your recept and your Medicare card. They put them both in a little plastic basket and say “that will be about 15 minutes”. You think to yourself, that’s a long time 15 minutes, ohwell this is a pretty big chemist.
You head for the Elastoplast section that you passed on the way in, in the hope that it will entertain you for the next 15 minutes. Sure its fun but the only reason you would buy some of this stuff is if you had an injury and you don’t.
So the elastoplast section entertains you for about 2 minutes, only 13 minutes to go. You go to the “gifts” section but you only last there about 30 seconds because you realise its next to the tampon section and you don’t want people thinking you are looking at the latter. So you leave that section and head back towards the prescriptions counter. You can see your basket sitting on the shelf, not moved since you handed it ain. Why not sit down on the one waiting chair they have. Well because there is an old guy with a walking stick sitting in the chair. Why don’t they put out more chairs, why not couches, and tables and magazines. It should be like a waiting room. You wait longer in a chemist than you do in the doctors surgery and they give you couches and magazines and sometimes even a fish tank.
Why does it take 15 minutes, let me outline the steps.
Take the prescription and medicare card.
Read the prescription.
Go to the shelf and get the box.
Print off a sticker with the customers name on it.
Stick the sticker on.
Go back to the counter.
It doesn’t take 15 minutes to do that.
You have to go to university for 4 years to become a chemist, surely in that 4 yours you can get you typing speed up enough that it doesn’t take 10 minutes to type a customers name.
It must be the typing that takes the longest, because it cant be hard to find the medication its all in alphabetical order on the shelf.
The sticker, well that’s pretty easy, just press print. Then stick it on. Its not like they take the time to make sure the sticker is straight or lines up.
Then give it to the customer.
Its not that hard, it doesn’t need to take 15 minutes.
I don’t understand.
It sure feels longer than 15 minutes too, infact by the time I have finished waiting my joints are starting to hurt. If I had the energy I would go back to the elasoplast section and buy all the straps they have cause I’m all cramped up from waiting so long. Maybe that’s it. They take so long so you buy their elastoplast merchandise, it’s a big scam.
What happens if you go to the doctor and he says, oh your gonna die soon, you need this medication. “I give you about 10 minutes to live if you don’t get this stuff”.
So off you go to the chemist, which by chance is next door to the surgery. You go in but then you die in the chemist, in between the gifts and the tampons because you had to wait so long.
I haven’t even been to a doctor or chemist recently this ramble just sort of happened.
dream job
I would like to add working in a toll booth to my list of dream jobs
melbourne cup 05
she’s archie
No. 17
out of barrier 9.
my winner
push ‘n pull
I have a theory that the bigger the “push” sign on doors the more likey i am to pull the door. Its a subconsious thing becasue my brain is reading the sign but my arm rebels and pulls the handle.
I have noticed it every time i’m at the St Mary’s office, they have a very big “push” sign on their door, and on aproach i often think..wow thats a big push sign people must be really dumb around here. and then when i aporach the door i pull and it wont open
