I've got some major ranting to do, but time is short because my hair follicles have an appointment with some electrical current.
Today was the day of sucky customer service. Actually, I guess the suckiness goes back to last week. Last Thursday, I called my doctor for a prescription that I needed for above-mentioned appointment. Now I like my doctor, but her choice of clerical help sucks. Sucks! Thursday! I called! She took the info and implied that things would move along smoothly. Didn't hear back from her that day. Called Friday. Closed. Understandable, since it was New Year's. Called Monday. She told me the doctor had approved the prescription and she would have a nurse call it in. Go to the pharmacy yesterday morning. Nothing there. Call doctor's office....
Running out of time. Okay, quicker.
I called the doctor's office like 6 times over 4 workdays to get them to finally call in a prescription. Turns out the pharmacy can't fill it until tomorrow.
Sucks! If you add up all the time I was on hold, I could've baked a casserole. Throw in all the time I've spent seething about their incompetence, I could've made a gourmet meal. Something longer than Rachel Ray's creations.
Time to get fried.
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1.5 hours later
The sizzle fest is over and I'm feeling calmer. I'm still annoyed about the botched prescription, but I made do. I'm also annoyed with Delta for issuing others the seats on the flight I wanted, resulting in my having to pay for a ticket instead of using miles. I know, I know, I should have taken the plunge last night. But don't tell me you can't issue me a ticket in the time frame I need and then ask me you can help me with hotel and car arrangements.
Oh, right, calmer. There's something about lying down with soothing music and water sounds that makes a girl feel better. Even with the bursts of pain once in a while.
Lying there, I thought about the fact that over the last 10 days, the world's been feeling down and distracted. We've had lots of physical-feeling-under-the-weather in the office, including me. I can't help but think it's related to the overwhelming sadness about the tsunami and the lives it took and altered. So I guess poor customer service is just an outward manifestation of the human body being affected by part of the body being devastated.
It is obvious that all created things are connected one to another by a linkage complete and perfect, even, for example, as are the members of the human body. Note how all the members and component parts of the human body are connected one to another. In the same way, all the members of this endless universe are linked one to another. The foot and the step, for example, are connected to the ear and the eye; the eye must look ahead before the step is taken. The ear must hear before the eye will carefully observe. And whatever member of the human body is deficient, produceth a deficiency in the other members.
(Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, #21, p47)
how is the electrically treated area looking? hairless, or close to?
Posted by: meisa at January 6, 2005 10:23 AMThank you for your lovely comment in my site yesterday. I never thought that about myself and it was nice to hear the idea from you :) and this post was very interesting. I never thought about us all being connected that way before.
Posted by: Linda at January 6, 2005 11:21 AMMeisa, it's moving along quite nicely. You might reconsider your methods.
Linda, I meant what I said on your blog. There are several blogs I read that demonstrate that the early years in a child's life can be challenging. Your blog lets me know that the challenges change as a child grows. But you seem to roll with the punches.
You know, you're probably right - we sometimes forget that we're all ONE on this same planet and what affects the few also affects the many.
Posted by: bethanie at January 7, 2005 01:32 PMShokufeh, thanks for the comments and welcome on my blog! I've been feeling the overwhelming sadness and shock of the world lately but couldn't come up with anything to write about it. Thanks for the quote.
Posted by: george at January 8, 2005 04:42 PM