Call waiting...
I have a pet peeve about phone calls, especially about phone calls to the Mrs when she doesn’t answer. This pet peeve dates back to the time when each little extra calling feature on the cell phone plan would cost you extra. I am not sure exactly what the name of the feature is in technical phone language but I think the proper term is call waiting. Where if you are talking to someone and someone else calls you the person calling doesn’t get a busy signal they just hear the phone ringing and when you don’t answer they can leave you a message.
Say good bye...
In that same scenario the phone will beep as you are talking and show that you have a new call coming in and you can quickly say good bye to the person you have on the line already and answer the incoming call or just ignore it and the voice mail option kicks in as already stated. Now you can even put call one on hold and answer call two and then go back to call one, for me that is just too tricky and the same goes for the wife. If we are talking to someone and we don’t answer it is for good reason, we are already talking to someone.
I would get annoyed...
At first, back when that option was an extra charge, I would get a little annoyed that if she was talking to one of her friends and I called she wouldn’t answer. Why was I paying extra for this feature that would, or should, pretty much guarantee me priority status on the wife’s phone? Plus I figured she just didn’t hear the phone so I would call right back and go thru the same damn scenario, sometimes even a third time.
She was on the phone...
Then I would get a call back about five minutes later explaining to me that she was on the phone with someone and I kept interrupting the call, all those beeps she was getting was making it difficult to talk. Later rather than sooner I learned to just leave her messages and she would call back, but I still felt I was paying extra for a feature that never seemed to be used.
Now it doesn’t matter because all the features are wrapped up in a bundle or plan and so you really don’t know what you are paying for each feature, you just know you have them and life is good.
So the Mrs. got...
So the Mrs. got a phone call on Tuesday as she was driving Blondie to her Girl Scout meeting and both Blondie and Shortie were with her. Her phone was on the little consol thing and Blondie was in the passenger seat. So when the phone rings the wife asks Blondie to see who is calling and since it wasn’t a number that was programmed into her phone it just displayed the number. The wife doesn’t talk on the phone when she drives, or so she says, but when it wasn’t a number that was recognizable she told Blondie just to let it go to voicemail.
The caller did...
The caller did leave a message and so after she dropped Blondie off and when back home she listened to the message. It turned out that it was a veterinarians office calling to let her know that she was two weeks past due on bringing Mrs. Knibbles in for a checkup.
Some of you early adopters of reading the Daily Dose from last fall might remember the name Mrs. Knibbles, as I did a post at the request of Shortie, announcing her funeral arrangements.
The same vet office...
The vet office calling was the same vet office that misdiagnosed her condition and ultimately ended up in her death less than 8 hours after saying she would be fine and gave her a couple shots of medicine and sent her home.
A flood of memories...
That brought back a flood of memories for the Mrs.Papper and luckily she wasn’t in the same room with Shortie when she listened to that voicemail. The vet office new that Mrs. Knibbles had died, the vet had called that same evening after the office visit and she was told the bad news.
A condolence card...
The vet office even sent Shortie a condolence card in the mail signed by the entire office staff about a couple weeks after her death. Evidently though, no one seemed to update the records in their computer system so that is why we got a call, keep in mind this was the first and only visit Mrs. Knibbles had ever made to the vet.
Plenty of reasons to...
There were plenty of reasons for us to be upset with this vet office we come to learn and it was to the point that I wanted to report and file a complaint with the state board of veterinary medicine and have this DVM investigated but the wife talked me out of doing it. She told me on the phone Tuesday night that she wished I would have now, at least that would have gotten their records updated probably.
She will give...
She is going to give them a call back today and give them a piece of her mind. I hope she remembers to tell them not to bother to call us to remind in a month or so that Percie needs to come in for a checkup.
We were so moved by their “compassion” that they got a second chance to misdiagnose the brother to Mrs. Knibbles and he ended up dying as well, but not before we could get him to a second vet that was able to determine what the real problem was; but his condition was so bad by then there was no saving him. Had we been with that vet from the get go there is a real good chance that both would have survived.
Just to give you...
Just to give you an idea how incompetent the first vet was, she told us that Mrs. Knibbles was more than likely pregnant and had just a minor upper respiratory infection and should be fine with medicine, Mrs. Knibbles was a male, not a female.
The second vet...
We would not come to the know that until Percie ended up at the second vet office, because we also believed Percie to be a female but he wasn’t and the second vet showed the girls for sure he was male. Mrs. Knibbles and Percie both had the same genitalia so it stands to reason that Mrs. Knibbles wasn’t pregnant, the actual problem with both of them was their back teeth and because of the pain from those teeth they stopped eating and drinking.
Get them on the phone...
So the vet office will get a call from the Mrs. today and a piece of her mind, I just hope that she gets the vet on the phone and just doesn’t let the receptionist have the earful, the doctor needs to get that. I covered these tragic stories last fall and they can be found in the Daily Dose archives.
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