Blue Skies

My phone rang.
 "Where are you?" she grumpily asked, "your appointment was at 11.00am"
"Oh", I said looking at my phone to see who was calling, it was the hospital.

"Do you mean the appointment for 11am on July 15?"  I politely responded
"What? Wait, no, todays appointment"
"I don't have any appointments today, not with you anyways"
"But we have you down for 11am today!"

"I made two pre-surgery appointments with Brenda, both for the 15th. They're the only appointments I have."
"Brenda doesn't work here anee mooooore"
The sound of a penny dropping at the other end of the call was obvious to say the least.
"Can you come in right now?"
"Actually I can't, maybe later this afternoon."
"But, but, but, I don't know if we can............ooh, I see, here you are on the 15th"

And then it was the "no food the day off, only clear liquids up to 3 hours before. Don't forget to wash your hair
and bits and pieces separatety from the rest of you with the special soap." 
"You do have the special soap, don't you?"
"Yes"
"Ok, don't forget to ask the nurse to swab you in your mouth and your groin when you come on the 15th. 
just in case you caught something when you were last here."
Hmm. ",nothing's fallen off up to now, but OK. I'll make sure she does that."

A few minutes later, the rest of her staccato like statements were over and done with and it was time to go
to my real appointments for the day. Pedicure and hair cut.
The boss drove me and that's how I got today's photo.


Ah well...