centre of the universe - the dreaming: Other Stuff

09/21/2005: "Other Stuff" It's not that I mind so much receiving a bill for an ambulance ride. Even though they didn't *do* anything, and I had to explain to the EMT trainee what an IUD is and what it's for (and for the record, I went in to detail about what it looks like and where it's placed and how it gets in there and what happens if it moves around). It's not even that I mind so much that they didn't even flash the lights or wail the siren. It's the fact that the bill is nearly TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

Next time I need an ambulance, I'm going to call a taxi. The taxi only costs fifty bucks.

Granted, my health insurance pays for the ambulance ride. Granted, I didn't really *need* an ambulance; His Nibs *could* have woken up the kids and driven me in to town, stopping every fifteen minutes to hurl or poop, and praying we didn't drive off the road with fever chills.

Maybe I should sell those morpheine tablets the doctor gave me for $150 a pop. Then I'd make $25 on the deal.

No, what I really mind is the fact that if we're going to claim to be a socialist province, then we should try to be a socialist province.

"Beavers?" "Rotten"

9 Comments

Ooblik , on Wednesday, 21st September:

wow, that was expensive. When you got to the hospital did you at least get treatment, or did they let you fester in the waiting room for a couple hours?

cenobyte , on Wednesday, 21st September:

I didn't have to wait that long.

And they gave me morpheine.

But when I had to come back the next day for tests, I waited for five hours to see the doctor before I finally just left and told them to fax the results to my family doctor.

Then, when I went to my family doctor that afternoon, he had the test results already.

But I didn't get the siren.

Ooblik , on Wednesday, 21st September:

Looks like socialism is working then....

Der Kaptin , on Wednesday, 21st September:

You've already heard enough from your friends about not seeking assistance from any of THEM, so I won't belabour the point. Maybe the $250 bill will drive the point home a little further, even if you don't actually have to pay it.

Der Kaptin , on Wednesday, 21st September:

Geez, COTU, you've let us down. I just discovered, from ANOTHER source, that Monday (19th) was International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrghh, we've been skuppered. Too much mit der beavers and not enuff mit der pirates. What could be better than pirate(d) beaver?

cenobyte , on Wednesday, 21st September:

Er, you didn't hear the Arthur Black interview then? We were both wearing our eye patches. And we talked like pirates.

Sorry I forgot the heads-up: I was really really excited about the interview.

Der Kaptin , on Wednesday, 21st September:

Sorry I missed that. I was somewhere else. How was Art? His usual pompous self?

Parmeisan , on Friday, 23rd September:

Speaking of which, how come we didn't get any post-interview banter on here? I was really looking forward to that.

cenobyte , on Friday, 23rd September:

I was wondering that myself.

Blackbeard was charming and fun, and not at all pompous. Not any more so than the most pompous of writers I've chatted with on the show. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

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