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Left turn, right turn....wrong turn
Thu Apr 10 2003

I had an appointment today for a DEXA scan at a place that is about 20 minutes away by freeway. It took 50 minutes, and when I got to the address, the facility had moved!! To within 5 minutes of where I live. Aaaarrrggghhh!!

The receptionist at the address where I went telephoned the facility where I was supposed to go to, and I got directions. I couldn't believe it. It was almost in my front yard. Well, it took about maybe 10 minutes to get back to where I supposed to have been in the first place.

When I got to where I was supposed to be in the first place, I told the receptionist that the next time I was directed by my doctor to some testing place I had never been to before, I was going to call and make sure I had the right address--not the address printed on the form. She said she called me yesterday, but when I denied receiving a call, she said "maybe" she hadn't left a message. Huh!

Oh, the DEXA scan is something they do--a sort of xray--to find out if the bones are healthy.

Anyway, I made a left turn off the freeway, and after several blocks realized I was going the wrong way. So I turned around and ended up in barely moving traffic due to construction work on the road. Every few seconds I looked at my watch, belaboring my stupidity in not following the MAP, which I had studied before I left home.

As I said, the trip should have taken 20 minutes, I allowed 30 minutes (I hate being late to appointments), and took 50 minutes to get to where I wasn't supposed to be in the first place.

Hey, Deborah, does any of this sound familiar?

Shalom

6 Comments
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 10 2003
    ugh, sounds like a rather labourious tiki-tour :-/
    i'm like you, don't enjoy being stuck in traffic

    sez
  • From:
    Ozone (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Apr 13 2003
    The best layed plans of mice and men lol. It seems to me that the office was doing a jig over their failure to properly direct you.

    You asked if I missed the old days......boy do I!
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Apr 13 2003
    she's a very smart cookie ;)
    you did sooo well, here's the forum link for all the answers, but i think you went one better and got the final one which is the one we just guessed at
    as for the puzzle one, don't worry, the smart cookies who haunt the forums haven't figured it out yet either, and they've had it all weekend

    here's the translated ones, im still not sure that number 22 is right, at least i have my doubts about the offered solution:

    http://forums.atomic-systems.com/viewtopic.php?t=14456
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Apr 13 2003
    p.s. i hope you are well :)))

    p.p.s where is everybody??? it seems both your readers and my readers are awol at present

  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Apr 14 2003
    that's strange, not being able to get into the forum as its a part of the atomic websites so you shouldn't really be having trouble

    if you go to the main screen of deardiary, you will see a list of links across the top. if you click on 'forums' (in between atomicichome and Atmail) then click on 'chatter', the 2nd link down, then look down the link and click on 'translators-r-us' then it'll give you the answers that everybody else has come up with.
    failing that then the only other thing i can do is cut and paste them all here but you've pretty much answered them all anyway

    as for the long weekend, we get this friday and then monday off. the week after that is anzac day (25th april) to remember the soldiers of ww1 and ww2 :)

    sez
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Apr 17 2003
    Oh my gosh! How frustrating! Hope all came out well for you with the tests. Oh I'd be upset, first that the address on the form was wrong and then that the receptionist had the nerve to say she'd called the day before. Hmmmpphhhh.