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MIButterfly

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5. Proving that you are kind and considerate people!
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:43 PM
Jan 7

My mother had AFib and had to have her blood checked weekly. She had an appointment for another issue at a hospital downtown and we decided she could get her blood drawn after that appointment. So we went down to the lab and they didn't have the order for blood-drawing in their computer and they couldn't reach the doctor because it was 4:30 and it took a good 40 minutes for them to straighten it out, with my mother bitching to anyone who would listen and even those who wouldn't. In a room full of sick people! When they finally came to get her, I could hear her bitching all the way down the hallway to the blood-drawing room.

My mother was not a go-with-the-flow type person. Ordinarily, she had a great sense of humor, but not that day.

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I had a colleague who was a "close talker". Id back up against the wall too BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 7 #1
Haha! LuckyCharms Jan 7 #2
each culture has unspoken standards regarding personal space among strangers BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 7 #6
That was a great story, Lucky Charms. MIButterfly Jan 7 #3
She has a good sense of humor. LuckyCharms Jan 7 #4
Proving that you are kind and considerate people! MIButterfly Jan 7 #5
But did you get the dog back? sinkingfeeling Jan 7 #7
Yes! After the appointment. LuckyCharms Jan 7 #8
And how was the dog? question everything Jan 7 #9
All good! LuckyCharms Jan 7 #10
Lucky Charms, I wish you and your wife some_of_us_are_sane Jan 7 #11
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