The News From Here

5:30 PM
I’m about tuckered out. I heard quite a lot of “I don’t know” today. I started at the bank- an online form wanted a routing number – I don’t have ANY checks so I thought (Yeah- its getting scary when I do that) I’d just stop at the bank after I printed out the form. After being told “just leave it blank” Well naturally I had to ask why it was on the form. “I don’t know” #1.
Next to the post office 3 blocks up the street to pickup my accumulated mail. There I was informed that my mail doesn’t come through there, it comes through a post office several miles away. Yeah I HAD to ask why. “I don’t know” #2.
Onward to waiting “on hold” for a “VA consultant”. An VA employee to assist veterans. I described my change of status and how the overpayment occurred and he took all the information and was very congenial and thanked me for notifying them promptly etc. When I asked how to return the overpayment and how much would be considered overpayment. Are you ready ? “I don’t know” He DID elaborate a little though by adding “I don’t have a clue.” #3.
20 miles and an hour later I was VA Health Care (hospital) in Phoenix looking for the dermatology department. Oh I’ve been there before SEVERAL times but I’ve never gone the same way twice, it’s a maze that bridges several building with a lot of elevators that won’t help you find anything unless all you need to know it which way is up- or down. “Go half way down that hall up there ahead and take the elevators on the left. “ Everyone tried to help but obviously they didn’t go there often either. I refrained from asking “How I’m to know when I’m half way down a hall that I can’t actually see how for it goes? I’m crediting that to my “I don’t know” list although it wasn’t stated, it was demonstrated. #4
Yep I found it eventually – One exam by an intern preceding the doc’s arrival and she shows up. Now realize that I’m not actually into women’s attire but she (my dermatologist) is hard to miss. She had on silk like pants that even under her lab coat made your eyes hurt for all the colors and giant geometric patterns. I think the number of colors must have approached a color blind artist’s palette and shoes with glittery stuff over them. Well OK I’ve gotten kind of accustomed to her besides she’s funny. Extra Credit. So now after a pretty complete look over she is focused on the two “things” on my arm that I came to have examined. A serious look with a magnifier and pressing and pushing on them, she says “I’m pretty sure those aren’t skin cancers but we’ll do biopsies anyway.” Do have any idea what my next question was? I just had to ask, what are they then. The answer was - Yep - #5.
It had reached the point of crazy at that point so as I walked out (I can find my out miraculously) I was walking down the many hall ways and an unusual number of people seemed to be speaking to me with lots of “how ya doing?” Finally I realized I was walking along smiling/grinning about the day’s “I don’t knows.” OK – my sense of humor isn’t main stream.
OH Yeah – I went to the optical department to check on my new glasses ordered July 8th. I didn’t even have to ask- they had started using a new system and guess whose order got lost. So all in all I’d have to say that it was a silly day- not bad but. . . Makes ME (chuckle) anyway.
In a year or so I’ll probably go back through my blogs and question my sanity AGAIN when I get to this one along with most of the rest of them but maybe more so. . .