The Massage

I drove into Burlington yesterday to get my scheduled massage and Beth never turned up! Now, this is very unusual for her. Usually if we have a problem it comes from my end. I forget the time or write the date down wrongly. Anyway, I called Fred on the off-chance it wasn’t my fault and asked him to give Beth my cell phone number if she called. {At this request, I had written down the cell phone number in a card which he then stowed in his wallet.}

I sat on a chair outside her massage room in the shade and read from the Kindle for about fifteen minutes and then decided to go home. The minute I walked in the door, Fred told me that Beth had called full of apologies because she had forgotten and he had given her my cell phone number. Then he tried to call me to tell me this but was told my cell phone was out of order.  Now, this couldn’t be true not only because I have like a million minutes, but also because I had used the phone to call him.

Eventually we found the cause of the problem. It was me! I had written down one incorrect digit on the card I gave him!  Anyway, I called Beth when I got home and we got it all sorted out. I actually need to put her number into my cell phone in case this happens again. {She doesn’t have a cell phone but she does have a business phone which is usually answered by a machine.}

And we rescheduled for today which actually is better for me because I have more aches and pains today! When I was having the MRI of my head on Friday, towards the end I was, apparently desperately trying to hunch my shoulders to get away from the noise. Of course, I couldn’t move the shoulders at all since they were shoved up against two bars in order to keep my head still. I had a few twinges yesterday but the full panoply has descended on me today!

Ok, on with the day!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet