Medium Well Xul
Oh mah gawd, it is sooooooooo hot! I had to take the dog to the Humane Society for his annual vaccinations and it was like eleventy bazilion degrees outside! Well, more like 90F/34C, but it was HUMID and there's that damn Sahara Desert dust cloud keeping in all the heat.
When we got to the place, they were just re-opening after their lunch break and there were already four other pet patients in front of me. The place where they do the vaccinations is quite tiny. There are two rooms: the first, where you sign in and pay the fees, is maybe 3x3 meters and the second, where the exams and shots are given is maybe the same size as the first room. You have to sign in and then go wait outside where they have many benches against the outside wall under a small awning.
I ended up waiting almost an hour to be seen. My dog was ready to keel over by then. I was ready to keel over. The actual shots only take a couple minutes to administer so I have no idea what was taking so long. When I signed in, the others in front of me were there for shots, too, so WTF? So when I was finally called back inside, there was a vet tech in the exam room prepping the syringes and giving the booster shots but the rabies one has to be done by the doctor. The vet tech gave my dog his boosters and then went to see where the doctor disappeared to. She came back and said he went to the bathroom and would be back in a minute.
Well, several minutes passed and she went to go see what was happening. I felt like asking if he was "pinching one off" but that might have been taken the wrong way so I didn't say anything. Then a few more minutes passed and the tech went to go check on the doctor again. I felt like saying, "Maybe he needs to eat more fiber!" but I held my tongue once again. Then the tech came back and said the doc wasn't feeling well. Then after another few minutes he finally popped in, took the syringe with the rabies vaccine and stuck the dog. It's really ridiculous to wait that long (around an hour and 15 minutes) for something that takes less than two minutes to do, all because the State won't allow the tech to do the rabies shot.
Anyway, needless to say, we were happy to be getting the hell outta there. It has been a little more that three hours since we got back home and I feel horrible and cooked from being in the heat that long. I am very happy that Willis Carrier invented air conditioning for I shall be spending the rest of the day inside enjoying his Most Holy invention. There really should be a national holiday in his honor as well as many large statues of him as tribute.
When we got to the place, they were just re-opening after their lunch break and there were already four other pet patients in front of me. The place where they do the vaccinations is quite tiny. There are two rooms: the first, where you sign in and pay the fees, is maybe 3x3 meters and the second, where the exams and shots are given is maybe the same size as the first room. You have to sign in and then go wait outside where they have many benches against the outside wall under a small awning.
I ended up waiting almost an hour to be seen. My dog was ready to keel over by then. I was ready to keel over. The actual shots only take a couple minutes to administer so I have no idea what was taking so long. When I signed in, the others in front of me were there for shots, too, so WTF? So when I was finally called back inside, there was a vet tech in the exam room prepping the syringes and giving the booster shots but the rabies one has to be done by the doctor. The vet tech gave my dog his boosters and then went to see where the doctor disappeared to. She came back and said he went to the bathroom and would be back in a minute.
Well, several minutes passed and she went to go see what was happening. I felt like asking if he was "pinching one off" but that might have been taken the wrong way so I didn't say anything. Then a few more minutes passed and the tech went to go check on the doctor again. I felt like saying, "Maybe he needs to eat more fiber!" but I held my tongue once again. Then the tech came back and said the doc wasn't feeling well. Then after another few minutes he finally popped in, took the syringe with the rabies vaccine and stuck the dog. It's really ridiculous to wait that long (around an hour and 15 minutes) for something that takes less than two minutes to do, all because the State won't allow the tech to do the rabies shot.
Anyway, needless to say, we were happy to be getting the hell outta there. It has been a little more that three hours since we got back home and I feel horrible and cooked from being in the heat that long. I am very happy that Willis Carrier invented air conditioning for I shall be spending the rest of the day inside enjoying his Most Holy invention. There really should be a national holiday in his honor as well as many large statues of him as tribute.
posted by Xul at 5:16 PM
4 Comments:
Well, I hope your dog's feeling okay after such an ordeal. Are there any side-effects you have to look out for?
He seemed to recover faster than I did. They gave a paper listing symptoms to look out for just in case he had an allergic reaction to any of the shots but he never does. I was concerned, though, since he's 15 and a very old man for a dog. The heat can be deadly.
So lekker, you kidlet minding? Gonna make them do something fun or just video games inside all day?
or just video games inside all day?
It was only from 20:00 till about 23:00 (plus the next morning till about 11:00) but, yeah, mostly some Halo on their Xbox and some TV watching.
The weather has been pretty bad over here, lots of drizzle and very little sunshine. So those kids don't get to play outside much. Plus most of their friends are on a "real" holiday somewhere. It's kind of a disappointing summer this year.
mostly some Halo Oh well, at least they have a shoot-'em-up to keep them occupied. The weather here has been on-and-off. Either scary rain/thunder storms or insane heat. Either way ya just want to stay indoors.
So what were their parents doing that made them require your services?
It's kind of a disappointing summer this year. Mine have been disappointing since 1994.
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