Serendipitous Curious Quotations (travel, calculator)

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by jrkliny

I think the last cash I spent was well before Covid.

+1
When I went to the carwash recently, I realized that this was the first time that I had used cash for over one year.

[Lodestar]

This thread is hilarious.

Here's a quippy quote to go with it - "like herding cats."

Hope you're healing well, galaxyhi.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by Lillie767

It's already happened. Ask a young cashier to make change.

For example, the bill for lunch is $16.14. I give her a twenty dollar bill with a dime and four pennies. See the deer in the headlights look on her face.

A bit like the clerk who when faced with the task of multiplying a number by 100, had to make a mad dash for a calculator.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by Sand&Salt

I worked with a 20-something that proudly admitted she could not tell time on an analog clock.

She probably couldn't read handwriting either.

[Hefe]

"Make your dreams come true: Wake Up!"

[RationalExpectations]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

I don't think Olive Garden has a way to pay without a credit card.

Why would anyone voluntarily eat at Olive Garden?

[RationalExpectations]

Originally Posted by Lodestar

Here's a quippy quote to go with it - "like herding cats."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

[galaxyhi]

Originally Posted by Lodestar

This thread is hilarious.

Here's a quippy quote to go with it - "like herding cats."

Hope you're healing well, galaxyhi.

Thanks.
But actually no, I'm not healing well at all.

Yesterday I had my third emergency surgery following the original surgery on April 26.

The 18" incision on my lower abdomen doesn't want to heal, I've had two surgeries to cut out necrotic (dead) tissue and the incision has ruptured on both right and left sides.

The day after the original surgery I was back in the OR for a massive hematoma/internal bleeding, and Seriously the surgeon waited too long to get me back in.
When the floor nurse took my BP before sending me down to surgery, she said "that can't be right". I asked what? She said 'your BP is64/30!'.

By the time I arrived in the OR intake room, the nurse made the same exclamation, but this time my BP was 22/10!
3 times my BP went to 0/0 on the table.
In other words they "lost me" 3 times on the table.
They gave me 6 units of blood and platelets! That's a lot.
Darn good thing I was able to tell intake nurse I'd accept blood if needed, or literally I wouldn't be here.

The recovery nurse explained all this when I was semi coherent in recovery because she said they were waiting for the"go" to send me to the ICU. I asked why was I going to ICU? She said that's where the sickest of the sickest in the hospital go.
I said I know that, BUT WHY AM I GOING THERE?
She told us (spouse with me) the above, then I saw another nurse outside the recovery room call her out. She came back and said "apparently I've said too much"!!!!
Oh, great! An attempt to cover up how close I was to...not...being here now!!
I was sent up to ICU with not one, not two, but FOUR IV bags fed into the single IV location. (Saline, last unit blood, and two strong antibiotics.)

And after a week in hospital, I was released, but 4 days later was readmitted for another week to battle 2 infection s..one in the incision, and one internal.

I think today I get an appointment with my primary doctor to see if I can get to see another surgeon who is willing to take over, I don't think this jack***** knows what he's doing, even though he supposedly specializes in what I had done!

I think"pain and suffering" ...might be in order.

Surgeon s don't like to deal with another surgeon s work, because if they find gross neglect or incompetence, they have to report it, and naturally dontchknow, NO surgeon wants to be reported, so they don't want to deal with another surgeon s work they might have to report.

But, grrr, I don't know how many more mistakes I can handle... physically...or mentally!!

But, as I said, thanks for the best wishes.

I just want this ordeal to be over.

But first I have to live through it!!

[mshultz]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

A bit like the clerk who when faced with the task of multiplying a number by 100, had to make a mad dash for a calculator.

When I worked part-time at the library, due to the way the system was set up, it was occasionally necessary to do calculations by hand. While others would grab a calculator, I would grab a pen and piece of scrap paper. That's just me. I keep a calculator in my car to figure gas mileage, though. Division would require a lot of scrap paper.