For something like a year after my ankle surgery, we were still getting bills. None of which were our responsibility, thank god.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - May 13, 2015 12:15:26 pm PDT #26316 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Connie Neil - May 13, 2015 12:22:03 pm PDT #26317 of 30000
brillig
Gods, billing. Anymore, if a bill shows up--and I'm still getting them, a year later, I don't know why it takes so long to process this stuff--I consider the size of it, see how much more it could have been (paying $27.80 on a $5200+ bill seems a good deal), and I pay it. A few months later I often get a check back for overpayment.
The people who design the billing practices of medical organizations should have very vivid dreams of what it's like to go through these processes.
Ginger - May 13, 2015 12:42:13 pm PDT #26318 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
So I just got a phone call and my sister was in a wreck. She has whiplash and air bag burns, and sounded completely broken on the phone.
My mother and sister live together. Last week, my sister and my mother were running errands in my mother's car. My sister was driving, since my mother can no longer see well enough to drive. She stopped at a yellow light, and the person behind her plowed into her. That one was definitely not her fault. The other person's insurance company is talking about totaling out the car, so it's sitting in the shop. My sister, who already had a boot on one foot for tendonitis, got a broken finger in the crash.
Today, she was turning left into her work parking lot and someone coming the other way hit her car hard. She thinks she had the light, but the way she tells it, I suspect not. However, she was still shaken up from the previous accident. We will see what the police report says. Regardless, she has a '97 Civic, and there's not a prayer they won't total it out. So now they've gone from two cars to none.
As my mother says, if we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all.
-t - May 13, 2015 1:01:06 pm PDT #26319 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, god, Ginger. I don't even know what to say. What a run of ill fortune.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 13, 2015 1:13:56 pm PDT #26320 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Man, with that kind of luck driving I'd be tempted to buy a Nomex racecar driver suit and a Pinto.
Sheryl - May 13, 2015 1:48:09 pm PDT #26321 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Ouch, Ginger. {{{Ginger's family}}}
SailAweigh - May 13, 2015 1:52:20 pm PDT #26322 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Jeepers, Ginger. Gallons of ~ma for your mom and sister.
tommyrot, I went back and edited that second link, but I'll put it here, too:
Orch Or - Quantum consciousness
Jesse - May 13, 2015 2:01:18 pm PDT #26323 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh jeez, Ginger. I'm so sorry!
Sue - May 13, 2015 2:05:50 pm PDT #26324 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Aw, Ginger. That's terrible.
Lee - May 13, 2015 2:15:27 pm PDT #26325 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh Ginger, that is terrible, both in terms of the cars and the insurance.
I have a terrible tree sex headache and I'm having a lot of trouble focusing. I almost called in sick
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have come in, but I felt like I had to. I cancelled my lunch walk because it was outside, where the trees are. I may need to start using the treadmills again if this keeps up.