I never understand people who don't get a little impatient in traffic. Here I am, in a big hurry, as usual, and as usual I end up behind some dawdler that doesn't believe in watches, probably doing yoga chants while driving (in between cell-phone chats, more than likely). C'mon, people! Roads are built for travelling on, not lolligagging!

How was that? Good enough for this thread?

Scott

Okay Scott -- way to go!! Definitely a 'curmudgeonly (sp?) rant!! They must be the same people who slow down to a crawl when turning a corner, into a driveway, etc. So TURN already!!

Wayleaf -- Dr. Pepper it will be!! At least it will look authentic!

More rain -- Ughhhhh!!! It's amazing how many places on the human body can hurt. Somebody make it stop!!

Okay, I've got another story and I may as well post it here.

At work this week, an employee who had been on medical leave stopped in my office to sign a form. His neck was all bandaged and he said he had neurosurgery on his c-spine (I think) and they went in from the front. He was fortunate that they also found – and fixed - all sorts of things that could have caused him future neurological problems.

The office was really busy, so he continued to describe what a close call he had, accompanied by the crowd's oohs, ahhs, and wows. If they hadn't caught "it" when they did he would have had all kinds of issues like memory problems, forgetting words, hesitation in speaking and walking, and on and on.

He rattled off a whole list of neurological symptoms (sounding like a list from an MS website) to gasps from the gathered group. When they did some tests, they even found that the nerves weren't conducting the signals properly!

As happy as I am for his successful surgery, it felt kinda surreal when I reached in amidst the crowd and picked up his form with my tremoring hand, dragged my left leg to the copier, and copied the form for him.

Lucky for him he won't end up like me after all…

Well the stomach flu has hit all of us here. My 4 year old brought it home from preschool and it was passed on to my 1 year old, me, my mom and dad, and my sister, who were here trying to help me with the kids. I haven't been that sick in years. I lost 10lbs in 2 days!

MS of couse came calling too. My leg gave out on me and my eye went blurry. Fun for all here. Watch out everyone, it may be headed your way! Totally miserable experience. Bleah!
Jean

Euphonia,
What a story. I understand that we should be happy for people who can be "fixed" unlike us, but at times a major eye roll is necessary!

repeat post sorry

Hi Jmak,

That just about sums it up. I wasn't really angry, wasn't upset, wasn't depressed...but it felt so weird. I didn't know where to post it, but I had to tell the story to give everyone the opportunity for a major eye roll along with me.