A Question /edit

In a few minutes I am off on a trial drive to find my new ophthalmologist since I have an appointment on Thursday. But before I go I have this question.

When I put jam or jelly on a bagel or a piece of toast, why do I get sticky stuff on my hands? When I use cream cheese, the cream cheese doesn’t migrate to my hands! Marmite on toast stays exactly where it is put. What is it about jam, or to be more precise, marmalade, that causes it to cling to my fingers?

Now I am off to wash my hands.

If you think I am procrastinating because I am nervous about this trip, you are right…

Well, I got to the ophthalmologist’s place after getting lost three times! Yes, I did use my GPS but the main problems are (a) I am not good at estimating distances so when the GPS tells me to turn in 0.7 miles I tend to turn too soon. Also I am not used to interstate traffic. Yes, we have interstates in Vermont but if you want the truth, I stayed off them as far as possible! The third thing that causes me problems is that mostly I do not see the road name until I am very close to it. And I discovered this morning that the GPS actually tells me which lanes I can be in to turn off the interstate. I never saw that feature before since I don’t think Vermont has six lane highways! 

So, I am going to try it again tomorrow and this time I will pay attention to the time it takes. My appointment is at 10:45 so if I leave an hour to earlier to get there, it will give me some extra time because I am pretty sure it won’t take me an hour. On Thursday I need to arrive early anyway because there will be forms to fill out. When I talked to the front desk person, she said there were forms on their site. If there are, I can’t find them, so I need to allow time for form filling. {Note to self: This is an EYE doctor. Surely I will not be asked the date I started menopause. In case you didn’t know, being ask this is a pet peeve. It doesn’t happen suddenly on one day! I tend to be sarcastic on forms that ask me this.}

My telephone is still dead. I got yet another email this morning. Among other things it said,

"We opened an internal case with the information you provided and
assigned it to our specialist department so they will review your
account to determine the main cause of the issue and will fix it for
you.

Please allow us eight business days for a resolution. The case Id you
can use as reference is: 00000000."

That is, of course, not the correct number. So, eight days without a working phone. Bah! Humbug! This is actually a good incentive to call and get a price on getting a land line…

I am not sure if I mentioned I have two handicapped parking tags, one for Jake and one for me. There are two handicapped parking places outside my apartment and the are always occupied. I pulled into one of them when I came back so we shall see. Since now there are three of us in this building, maybe we can get another space allotted? {I just realized I am assuming these other two people are in my building…}