OMGoodness...this incident happened this morning, here it is 7:30 at night and I am still thinking about this...
went to the local drugstore (will not list particulars for this story) to get Zoe's monthly asthma meds and there was one girl ahead of me...
the conversation went something like this between her and the guy behind the counter...
him: ok, OMGosh this medicine is....
her: um you don't have to tell me how much it is...I know it is expensive...I have insurance and I just wish the carrier would get it together...this happens every single month and it is getting old...I was tired of the hassles they were giving me and so I paid for a year in advance and I am getting worse hassles...now, they have even sent me a refund check...I do not know what is going on but he needs his meds and....(she sort of trailed off at this point) and looked like she was going to cry...
him: that will be 875.00 please...
me: thinking I must have heard him incorrectly and am trying to pick my jaw up off the floor...
and then wouldn't you know that her credit card would not go thru...poor poor girl I felt so sorry for her...tried smiling at her and she was too upset as she said she would be right back...
now me, thinking I still had heard him wrong happened to look at the register and the amount was still lit up ($875 freaking dollars...REALLY????)
WHAT IN THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HERE??? how in the heck can she pay that much money every single month???
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
a teacher and twins
so, I love running into someone and right off the bat, you know you would make good friends...was at Ralph's getting balloons for Tim and Zoe's return from Japan...a girl walks in the door with a twin stroller with a little boy sitting and a little girl walking...they were both in jammies...the little girl was blonde and the little boy brown hair like Zoe's...cute little kids...at first, I was going to be a little critical of them being in jammies...but, they were cute, they were clean and IT WAS first thing in the morning...one thing I need to learn to do, is not be so critical of people, it is a bad fault of mine...
so, the guy behind the balloon counter offered her 2 balloons and she said that she would wait for the balloons till she was done shopping...since the twins were using their voices more, she was trying to teach them some patience...I said to her that she looks like she has a lot of patience...
turns out she is a teacher and she was teaching kindergarten till she went back after having the babies and she told her supervisors, "no more kindergarten." she now teaches 4th grade...so we talked about homeschooling Zoe and she asked "why?"
and I told her my passionate story about teachers...how I came to discover that teachers have your child more hours in a day then you actually see them awake...and when you get assigned a certain teacher, you know nothing about the person that will have them more then you do, and what if it is someone that normally you would never have around your child in the first place???
you are entrusting your most precious thing in the world to someone, who you do not even know, and what they are like, what they do every day in the classroom, when you are not there...she was aghast at some of our stories about how someone we all know and love was made to run around the playground and also to jumprope (everyone in my class runs and jumps was my explanation) even after she was diagnosed with a hole in her heart and 2 valve problems with her heart...how when same child was short of breath was told she could not sit in office during recess...I did tell her that we had wonderful teachers for several grades before pulling her, but how can you know for sure what and who you are getting each year??? I was severely disappointed in one certain teacher and we could not risk her health ever again...also..............
my friend across the street is the most gentle, christian, the best mom and she told me that her daughter, who is like her mom, a warm gentle, giving little soul, the best behaved child a great christian, who would come home several times a week and say that the teacher would cuss at kids...REALLY??? and this woman is the one that turned me onto the fact that your child is at school more than you see them awake, and this teacher that cussed at the kids is someone that in her child's every day life is someone my friend would never ever had around her children...she is very protective about who is around them and here she was saddled with this horrible person...
this girl in Ralph's does not teach in our district, but was so upset about all the experiences I spoke of...
she had to leave as the little boy was getting real ansy but, she was a real pleasure to talk to and I could have talked much longer to her...
she said in clsong, "oh, I hope to see you again..."
cute...now her I would absolutely adore to have for a teacher...she told us many stories about the children she has and has had and even when they have health problems how understanding she is and has been...her brother also died at an earlier age of Marfans syndrome (they did think the princess had this at one point...)
so, the guy behind the balloon counter offered her 2 balloons and she said that she would wait for the balloons till she was done shopping...since the twins were using their voices more, she was trying to teach them some patience...I said to her that she looks like she has a lot of patience...
turns out she is a teacher and she was teaching kindergarten till she went back after having the babies and she told her supervisors, "no more kindergarten." she now teaches 4th grade...so we talked about homeschooling Zoe and she asked "why?"
and I told her my passionate story about teachers...how I came to discover that teachers have your child more hours in a day then you actually see them awake...and when you get assigned a certain teacher, you know nothing about the person that will have them more then you do, and what if it is someone that normally you would never have around your child in the first place???
you are entrusting your most precious thing in the world to someone, who you do not even know, and what they are like, what they do every day in the classroom, when you are not there...she was aghast at some of our stories about how someone we all know and love was made to run around the playground and also to jumprope (everyone in my class runs and jumps was my explanation) even after she was diagnosed with a hole in her heart and 2 valve problems with her heart...how when same child was short of breath was told she could not sit in office during recess...I did tell her that we had wonderful teachers for several grades before pulling her, but how can you know for sure what and who you are getting each year??? I was severely disappointed in one certain teacher and we could not risk her health ever again...also..............
my friend across the street is the most gentle, christian, the best mom and she told me that her daughter, who is like her mom, a warm gentle, giving little soul, the best behaved child a great christian, who would come home several times a week and say that the teacher would cuss at kids...REALLY??? and this woman is the one that turned me onto the fact that your child is at school more than you see them awake, and this teacher that cussed at the kids is someone that in her child's every day life is someone my friend would never ever had around her children...she is very protective about who is around them and here she was saddled with this horrible person...
this girl in Ralph's does not teach in our district, but was so upset about all the experiences I spoke of...
she had to leave as the little boy was getting real ansy but, she was a real pleasure to talk to and I could have talked much longer to her...
she said in clsong, "oh, I hope to see you again..."
cute...now her I would absolutely adore to have for a teacher...she told us many stories about the children she has and has had and even when they have health problems how understanding she is and has been...her brother also died at an earlier age of Marfans syndrome (they did think the princess had this at one point...)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
dickens
today went with Tim to the Dicken's Festival that they hold every year here in our town...it is usually held outside, but, almost always raining...so, this year they had it at the convention center...I personally like it better when it is outside, feels more like a village setting that way...
we went cause Tim told me of someone that was going to playing the trombone at the festival...before Tim ever became a reporter, and more importantly with the Press Enterprise, I had religiously read a certain column written by a guy named Dan Bernstein...I like his work...when Tim started working there, he said that he had first met, and then engaged in conversation with Dan Bernstein...
the band was nice and it was very refreshing to just sit, enjoy a funnel cake and listen to some good music...
afterwards Tim introduced me to Dan and let me tell you that after he shook my hand, I entertained the notion of never washing my hand again...LOL...
he was a very nice guy, down to earth, very genuine...
had a wonderful time...
http://www.pe.com/columns/danbernstein/vitindex.html
we went cause Tim told me of someone that was going to playing the trombone at the festival...before Tim ever became a reporter, and more importantly with the Press Enterprise, I had religiously read a certain column written by a guy named Dan Bernstein...I like his work...when Tim started working there, he said that he had first met, and then engaged in conversation with Dan Bernstein...
the band was nice and it was very refreshing to just sit, enjoy a funnel cake and listen to some good music...
afterwards Tim introduced me to Dan and let me tell you that after he shook my hand, I entertained the notion of never washing my hand again...LOL...
he was a very nice guy, down to earth, very genuine...
had a wonderful time...
http://www.pe.com/columns/danbernstein/vitindex.html
chicago
I have been to Chicago but, it has been several years...I liked the city, although it was very very busy and tons of traffic...
when I just recently pulled up my bank statement online, noticed there was a charge for train tickets in Chicago (Hyde Pk station...to be exact).,.
somehow, someone, got hold off my credit card info and charged train tickets to my account...it did get straightened out by my bank, at least on my end...I was reimbursed by my bank after filling out a fraud report...
in my way of thinking, it better have been for something very important, like going to see your sick child in the hospital in order to have this be OK...when did it become OK to steal from someone else??? and even tho I got my money back, someone had to pay it back even if it was the bank....in my mind, the money has to come from somewhere...
how did the person that used my numbers really feel the minute they were using it???
but, they must not have felt all that bad, since they got away with it the one day, they did it again the following day also...
when I just recently pulled up my bank statement online, noticed there was a charge for train tickets in Chicago (Hyde Pk station...to be exact).,.
somehow, someone, got hold off my credit card info and charged train tickets to my account...it did get straightened out by my bank, at least on my end...I was reimbursed by my bank after filling out a fraud report...
in my way of thinking, it better have been for something very important, like going to see your sick child in the hospital in order to have this be OK...when did it become OK to steal from someone else??? and even tho I got my money back, someone had to pay it back even if it was the bank....in my mind, the money has to come from somewhere...
how did the person that used my numbers really feel the minute they were using it???
but, they must not have felt all that bad, since they got away with it the one day, they did it again the following day also...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
the things you hear from old people
at Elk's...
Greg and some other gentlemen were discussing their favorite tv shows while we were seated at an Elk's dinner...they were all manly men shows, Pawn Stars, History Channel, War stories, whatever and this little old lady (I discovered later she is 89) piped up in her cute little voice, barely audible and said, "my favorite show is Lawrence Welk, do you ever watch that?" Greg said "I used to watch when I was a kid, he is long since dead..." nice of him to ruin it for her...she said that she watches it on cable...
Greg and some other gentlemen were discussing their favorite tv shows while we were seated at an Elk's dinner...they were all manly men shows, Pawn Stars, History Channel, War stories, whatever and this little old lady (I discovered later she is 89) piped up in her cute little voice, barely audible and said, "my favorite show is Lawrence Welk, do you ever watch that?" Greg said "I used to watch when I was a kid, he is long since dead..." nice of him to ruin it for her...she said that she watches it on cable...
well behaved children
this happened a while back but I have not forgotten it so decided to share...
Greg and I went to Coco's for an early dinner...they seated us in a booth right next to a woman with her 4 (yes 4) boys...now usually when Greg and I go out without kids, we don't like to sit next to kids but the restaurant was crowded and so we stayed...while we ordered our food and till the time we got our food, we did not hear a peep from those 4 boys...so, I turned around and told the mother that her children were well behaved...she in essence, told me that her children knew they had to behave when they were out or else...I told her that you don't see that too often nowdays and that I really gave her credit for raising good boys...she said that in addition to the boys, she also had a baby girl who was home with the grandma...
this is her story and I gave her a hug when she left and told her how proud I was of her...
she and her husband had been together since high school and had the 4 boys (they ranged in age of 9-3 maybe) and then she got pregnant with the baby (I think she said the baby was 2) and during her pregnancy they discovered she had breast cancer...her husband could not accept the diagnosis and LEFT her...he also quit paying child support...can you believe this??? so while she was pregnant and having to deal with breast cancer and having 4 boys, she finished up nursing school which she had already started...how cool is that??? you have to give this girl credit...she put off the cancer treatment till she graduated and got a good paying nursing job...the reason the baby was with the grandma cause the mom had just recently had the surgery and could not lift the baby...
I was totally in awe of this mom and I hope she knew how much I thought of her...not only dealing with 5 kids on her own, finishing school, dealing with breast cancer and having some of the best behaved children I have ever seen...that is an accomplishment...
Greg and I went to Coco's for an early dinner...they seated us in a booth right next to a woman with her 4 (yes 4) boys...now usually when Greg and I go out without kids, we don't like to sit next to kids but the restaurant was crowded and so we stayed...while we ordered our food and till the time we got our food, we did not hear a peep from those 4 boys...so, I turned around and told the mother that her children were well behaved...she in essence, told me that her children knew they had to behave when they were out or else...I told her that you don't see that too often nowdays and that I really gave her credit for raising good boys...she said that in addition to the boys, she also had a baby girl who was home with the grandma...
this is her story and I gave her a hug when she left and told her how proud I was of her...
she and her husband had been together since high school and had the 4 boys (they ranged in age of 9-3 maybe) and then she got pregnant with the baby (I think she said the baby was 2) and during her pregnancy they discovered she had breast cancer...her husband could not accept the diagnosis and LEFT her...he also quit paying child support...can you believe this??? so while she was pregnant and having to deal with breast cancer and having 4 boys, she finished up nursing school which she had already started...how cool is that??? you have to give this girl credit...she put off the cancer treatment till she graduated and got a good paying nursing job...the reason the baby was with the grandma cause the mom had just recently had the surgery and could not lift the baby...
I was totally in awe of this mom and I hope she knew how much I thought of her...not only dealing with 5 kids on her own, finishing school, dealing with breast cancer and having some of the best behaved children I have ever seen...that is an accomplishment...
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