The Hunger Rants

[TBoneTX 46,063]

Afternoon/evenin', absent Commie- and haiku-bonusing babes!

[Dianalorena 1,153]

Hey mister simio! good afternoon all.

 

 

I'm doing a heart with rats today. i'm so excited. It is less creepy than it sounds

 

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Picked up a lot of apples.

Walmart didn't have an apple peeler, so now I need to check the hardware store in town.  They had some last month.

Did a two cart Walmart grocery trip.

Now I want to sleep.  

 

 

[cdneh 3,112]

It's a pity the MIL has banned me from the Doc's office. She has had chest pain, SOB, and edema all weekend. Won't take nitro, didn't even remember she has a Ventolin inhaler, doesn't remember every single time how that works. Won't take the second dose of Furosemide in the evening because she has to get up to the bathroom in the night.

 

Just came back from his office, admitted to none of that but claims she forgot to, says he says she's in fine health and to drop her dose of Carvedilol to once a day.

She isn't on that.

I've rung them. They are gone for the day, at 15:30.  I don't know why I bother.

To put the tin hat on it, her charming daughter has tagged me on FaceBook. So I don't miss seeing her fabulous holiday to look at the fall colors in Vermont.  "I love being retired," she says. I'd like to yank the pair of them bald-headed about now.

[Ontarkie 14,435]

7 minutes ago, cdneh said:

It's a pity the MIL has banned me from the Doc's office. She has had chest pain, SOB, and edema all weekend. Won't take nitro, didn't even remember she has a Ventolin inhaler, doesn't remember every single time how that works. Won't take the second dose of Furosemide in the evening because she has to get up to the bathroom in the night.

 

Just came back from his office, admitted to none of that but claims she forgot to, says he says she's in fine health and to drop her dose of Carvedilol to once a day.

She isn't on that.

I've rung them. They are gone for the day, at 15:30.  I don't know why I bother.

To put the tin hat on it, her charming daughter has tagged me on FaceBook. So I don't miss seeing her fabulous holiday to look at the fall colors in Vermont.  "I love being retired," she says. I'd like to yank the pair of them bald-headed about now.

i'd be tagging her and telling her she has 30 days to sort her mother out you're moving. 

[cdneh 3,112]

8 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

i'd be tagging her and telling her she has 30 days to sort her mother out you're moving. 

Oh I like that.

[trudi 1,317]

3 hours ago, cdneh said:

It's a pity the MIL has banned me from the Doc's office. She has had chest pain, SOB, and edema all weekend. Won't take nitro, didn't even remember she has a Ventolin inhaler, doesn't remember every single time how that works. Won't take the second dose of Furosemide in the evening because she has to get up to the bathroom in the night.

 

Just came back from his office, admitted to none of that but claims she forgot to, says he says she's in fine health and to drop her dose of Carvedilol to once a day.

She isn't on that.

I've rung them. They are gone for the day, at 15:30.  I don't know why I bother.

To put the tin hat on it, her charming daughter has tagged me on FaceBook. So I don't miss seeing her fabulous holiday to look at the fall colors in Vermont.  "I love being retired," she says. I'd like to yank the pair of them bald-headed about now.

If it makes you feel any better mine has started her winter 'doctor shopping's

Currently claiming to have blood in her urine caused by kidney stones - I'm not banned from the doctors yet & he said she's fine...

So tonight shes started with the 'congestive heart failure' and is googling to find her a new heart doctor - cos her current one told her she has the heart of someone 20 years younger.

*Sigh* it's going to be a long winter

 

Her daughter won't even answer the phone to her, she can't put up with her drama!

 

3 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

i'd be tagging her and telling her she has 30 days to sort her mother out you're moving. 

That is genius!!

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Swedish meatballs, mashed potato, and lingonberry jam for dinner.  Better than Ikea.  

[trudi 1,317]

I am so very English, even my complaint rant is polite!

 

I sent this to the restaurant we went to tonight:

 

Hello
I would like to say thank you for a lovely experience, like to, but I can't because we didn't have one.

We arrived to an almost empty restaurant at 6PM to have a family supper before my husband went to work.

We were seated promptly (right where we could see the serving area), our server took our drinks order and duly delivered 3 waters and an unsweetened tea - no straws but hey we're all big enough to drink from a glass...

Gave her our food order and that's when it started to go wrong.

After about 15 mins my mother in law's southern chicken salad arrived, I don't know about you but generally when I eat out all the entrees arrive together, kinda ruins the atmosphere when one gets food and the rest of the table is left drooling don't you think?

We waited, and waited and then waited some more, still no sign of the rest us getting any food.

I'm a pretty patient person but as I said earlier the whole point of the meal was to all eat with my husband before he went to work.  He was now worrying he wouldn't even see his food before he had to leave never mind eat anything.

I finally headed to the counter to enquire politely if we were likely to eat tonight.

No apology was given for the now 40 mins we had been waiting but 2 of the remaining 3 meals finally arrived.
So now we had 3 of the 4 meals we ordered, 45 mins after ordering.

Still no pizza and now my husband is going to be late, he had to ask for it be boxed before it came out and had to leave as soon as it arrived. 

Still no apology.

I understand that things happen in a kitchen, orders get lost, misplaced, overlooked or just ignored.

What I cannot understand or accept is the blase manner your front of house team dealt with it.

An apology, explanation, heck an acknowledgement that the appalling service we received is not usual would have been welcome - to ignore the issues and charge the full amount for what we received this evening is the worst example of service I have ever seen.

We used to enjoy meals there, not any more.

To ignore your customers when you have clearly failed to deliver any kind of acceptable service has ensured we will not be returning.

Yours disappointed and still hungry.

[SAT 9,609]

3 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

Swedish meatballs, mashed potato, and lingonberry jam for dinner.  Better than Ikea.  

but you love Ikea horse 🐎 meat meat balls...

[SAT 9,609]

28 minutes ago, trudi said:

I am so very English, even my complaint rant is polite!

 

I sent this to the restaurant we went to tonight:

 

Hello
I would like to say thank you for a lovely experience, like to, but I can't because we didn't have one.

We arrived to an almost empty restaurant at 6PM to have a family supper before my husband went to work.

We were seated promptly (right where we could see the serving area), our server took our drinks order and duly delivered 3 waters and an unsweetened tea - no straws but hey we're all big enough to drink from a glass...

Gave her our food order and that's when it started to go wrong.

After about 15 mins my mother in law's southern chicken salad arrived, I don't know about you but generally when I eat out all the entrees arrive together, kinda ruins the atmosphere when one gets food and the rest of the table is left drooling don't you think?

We waited, and waited and then waited some more, still no sign of the rest us getting any food.

I'm a pretty patient person but as I said earlier the whole point of the meal was to all eat with my husband before he went to work.  He was now worrying he wouldn't even see his food before he had to leave never mind eat anything.

I finally headed to the counter to enquire politely if we were likely to eat tonight.

No apology was given for the now 40 mins we had been waiting but 2 of the remaining 3 meals finally arrived.
So now we had 3 of the 4 meals we ordered, 45 mins after ordering.

Still no pizza and now my husband is going to be late, he had to ask for it be boxed before it came out and had to leave as soon as it arrived. 

Still no apology.

I understand that things happen in a kitchen, orders get lost, misplaced, overlooked or just ignored.

What I cannot understand or accept is the blase manner your front of house team dealt with it.

An apology, explanation, heck an acknowledgement that the appalling service we received is not usual would have been welcome - to ignore the issues and charge the full amount for what we received this evening is the worst example of service I have ever seen.

We used to enjoy meals there, not any more.

To ignore your customers when you have clearly failed to deliver any kind of acceptable service has ensured we will not be returning.

Yours disappointed and still hungry.

 

I wanted to reply sooner, but turtle won't leave me alone...

 

Was it a restaurant that you'd expect better service from? 

If I wrote the email, I woulda been short and sweet, like...

"Yo  man, Wt-f..."

[cdneh 3,112]

1 hour ago, trudi said:

If it makes you feel any better mine has started her winter 'doctor shopping's

Currently claiming to have blood in her urine caused by kidney stones - I'm not banned from the doctors yet & he said she's fine...

So tonight shes started with the 'congestive heart failure' and is googling to find her a new heart doctor - cos her current one told her she has the heart of someone 20 years younger.

*Sigh* it's going to be a long winter

 

Her daughter won't even answer the phone to her, she can't put up with her drama!

 

That is genius!!

I used to say to people, "Google is your friend!". I wish there was a way to keep her OFF it. 

I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find the hearing aid batteries she bought today. I should have thought of it sooner, she threw away the new packet and put the old packet in the fridge. With the eggs.

[SAT 9,609]

FFS....

The big guy calls me up about tomorrow. Chews my ear off for a half an hour.

I'm like, man didn't I just see you all day long?? 

I said, "You man, wt-f..." 

[trudi 1,317]

21 minutes ago, cdneh said:

I used to say to people, "Google is your friend!". I wish there was a way to keep her OFF it. 

I've just spent 20 minutes trying to find the hearing aid batteries she bought today. I should have thought of it sooner, she threw away the new packet and put the old packet in the fridge. With the eggs.

If mine ever gets as bad as your I swear I'm doing a drive by drop off at the nursing home!

[cdneh 3,112]

7 minutes ago, trudi said:

If mine ever gets as bad as your I swear I'm doing a drive by drop off at the nursing home!

 

I hope it never comes to that. For you