How to Annoy Medical Personnel, Waiting, and No Smoke Without Fire.

How to annoy Medical Personnel

1)When getting blood results back, ask for the actual results not the doctors interpretations of them.
2)Inform the doctor that the slight elevation they believe exists is in your opinion within normal parameters, and is not significant enough to require a repeat of the same test a week later.
3)Refuse to attend an additional check up
4)Repeat when pregnant
5)Insist that the hospital doctors etc only speak to your partner and have them follow steps 1-3.


Waiting

Waiting for the baby to be born is very like waiting for a train to arrive while carrying a heavy bag. You don’t want to put the bag down if you are going to step on the train in a moment, but if its going to be a while you would like to go and get a coffee and a paper. Uncertain of whether it will arrive on time, early, or late, you find yourself standing paralysed on the platform, aware that in the time you have spent making the decision as to whether to get coffee you could have actually got it, and arrived back, but that now you are not sure if this will repeat itself or whether you really still do have time for coffee.

Of course, this is a bad analogy as I am eating antacids which I am washing down with coffee and there is nothing I have to actually put off, however the sense of uncertain anticipation is really exquisitely unpleasant. I know, I know, I should be going "yippy oh its all exciting", but I am so, so bored. You have read me whinging about this once already – you will, I know, be bored by this second blog on the same topic. Well, that’s how I feel, only more.

I don’t queue. I don’t wait. If people are late for a meeting I leave. If I am early for a meeting and would need to wait I will leave 8/10 times. I rarely meet people. I don’t do waiting.

I am so, so, so annoyed and cross and fed up and want to cry.

In case it isn’t clear – I have given up smoking. Not that it's having any affect on my mood. At all. ‘They’ say "no smoke without fire" – at last I understand. Not smoking makes you want to shoot people. No smoke – you want to fire a gun. This morning someone said ‘how are you?’ to me – foolish foolish reckless person…..

Yours as impatiently,

The Broken Man

Quirky something or other..

1. Whitterer on Autism has tagged me and asked if i will right something about my Quirks...I am not at all sure about all this you know...however it seems a bit mean not to play along. Is that a quirk? That I don't like this kind of thing but then I am doing it...oh I am so confused. Please excuse me if I break the rules and dont link up anyone else....
   
   1) Link to the person who tagged me.2) Mention the rules.3) Tell six quirky yet boring, unspectacular details about myself.4) Tag six other blogger´s by linking to them.5) Go to each person’s blog and leave a comment that lets them know they’ve been tagged.
   Here are my replies.

Right, quirky and boring...I am confused as to why boring - what is the point of writing something that will bore people? Then again I guess I do a lot of that....so:

1) I don't do postboxes - not at all - I don't post things. I sometimes get other people to post things for me, but I do not post things myself.

2) I always wear a hat. Well, not always but *almost* always.

3) I don't like going backwards. As in going back to somewhere. The road must lead forward and not include a return past a previous point to pick something up.

4) When I become bored with a conversation I sometimes walk off while the person is still talking. I know this doesn't make me a good person - but sometimes I just have nothing to say and can't listen any more.

5) I dont queue. If something requires queueing I don't do it.

6) I don't like snow. It confuses me.

IF any of you dear readers want to do this, then post the stuff with me as the person who tagged you, let me know and I will edit this post saying I tagged you...does that make sense? Does that work? Is everyone happy?