None of that precludes notifying patients in the waiting room that the doctor is running late.

It was hectic. She loved being an eye doctor, but she hated running the practice. Unfortunately, she got sick and was not able to keep working.

Holy shit that’s bad!

Yeah. My wife was an eye doctor in private practice, and she was positively militant about never getting behind schedule.

She very rarely ran behind. It would require a cascade of emergencies.

I usually don’t get all that pissy about doctors running late. However, there was one time I was really irritated.

I took my wife to the doctor for an appointment. She got the first appointment of the day. We were there 45 minutes early. We waited more than 30 minutes past when the appointment was supposed to start. While we were waiting there, the doctor came in through the waiting room.

It’s one thing to be running late because of the normal day to day delays that happen in a medical practice, but if you’re actually just running late getting to work, you should call and have your staff let the patients know.

I think I understand what jetlag is, but I don’t understand how this smells like that.

The woman on the left: “You asked for the TV to be removed, and you did nothing about the fact that my eyes were closed?!?!?”

My mom often used two:

“Useless as tits on a bull” (often referencing her husband, my dad)

And also, “shit fire and save matches”, which I never understood to actually have a meaning, it was more like just an exclamation of surprise.

I came here to say this. I like to peel and eat the stems raw.

I also like to eat kohlrabi raw as a snack which is a similar flavor, which you would expect.

Can’t someone give him a comb or a brush or something? Maybe a hat?

It’s easy to throw your own parade in New Orleans.

https://www.frommers.com/blogs/passportable/blog_posts/you-can-throw-your-own-parade-in-new-orleans-here-s-how

No. Sadly, it can’t. It’s the racism. It’s always the racism.

Yeah, I was gonna say, they wouldn’t make it to BLTs with me.

Although, when I’m frying them I like to let them just barely start to turn red.

What I read at the time was that it was dropped because of the death threats the victim was getting.

I like the way you think.

Do you think I asked for a 10 inch pianist?

https://www.cracked.com/article_33461_15-impressively-evil-things-mcdonalds-has-done.html

Of course, even if the McDonald’s budget may have been “realistic” in some areas 10 years ago, I don’t think wages have kept up with the rise of prices for rent, groceries, etc in the intervening decade.

Years ago I saw an article about a robot designed to hunt and kill insects as a healthier pest control mechanism in farming. That robot would put the insects into a hopper where they would be converted to fuel to run the robot.

I figured it wasn’t going to be too long before they’d be eating us.

only if you let yourself be exploited as an underpaid protoslave

We’re from the U.S. Anything less than that would feel too foreign.