Comments on: Flying Non-Stop

By: WebSavvyMom

WebSavvyMom — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:19:28 +0000

–>I am always the defender of the littler person in public. I’ve watched a sales clerk not allow a customer see their receipt before paying and stepped up and told her to get the manager because she was *just* a cashier. (I was a cashier once at K-mart.) I was called a “skinny white bitch” in a parking lot a few years ago because I went the proper way down a one way aisle to park and appeared to have *stolen* this person’s parking spot. At an intersection near this same store recently, I was called another *name* after flipping the bird to a woman who cut me off in traffic.
The bottom line is if you’re not going to fight for yourself, there isn’t a good chance that anyone else will either. Unless I’m around.
WebSavvyMom posted Post It Note Tuesday

By: followthatdog

followthatdog — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:12:28 +0000

One of my biggest frustrations in the world is that the squeaky wheel tends to get the oil. And it has become so bad that in order to get oil a wheel MUST squeak. Forget best practices, forget doing the right thing, until that freakin’ wheel squeaks it gets ignored. It is this kind of thing, the carelessness of the incident with the staff at the hospital, the casual treatment of an over-charge by the cashier that forces us all to become squeakier and squeakier just to get the fair thing done. It’s exhausting and the noise is wearing on my nerves. But instead of being the exception it seems to be the way we have to do things now, just to get the basics.
And the $70 is well worth not having to change planes. Good for you.
followthatdog posted The deep end Well- really she shallow end

By: schmutzie

schmutzie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:12:20 +0000

I’m just catching up on some blog reading, and I’m glad I caught this post! I knew you had this side to you, Neil.
schmutzie posted Grace in Small Things- Sunday Edition 26

By: headbang8

headbang8 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:55:53 +0000

You didn’t get a taste of socialised medicine. You got a taste of a hospital trying to save money. You find them in the free-market system, as much as in regulated systems.

Patient advocates? There shouldn’t be a need…
headbang8 posted The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Traveller

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:31:33 +0000

Good for you. Hospitals suck and you need to stand up. Sadly, I have experience, too. It’d be awesome to meet you at Blogher. I’m sure you have lots of stuff going on. Me too. But after all these years…
Wendy posted My wooden ceiling

By: 180|360

180|360 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:48:21 +0000

Nicely done, Neil! Directness is sexy.
180|360 posted alive kicking

By: magpie

magpie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:26:18 +0000

I love complaining. Can’t wait to see you.

By: Finn

Finn — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:01:24 +0000

I’m proud of you. Enjoy your non-stop flight.
Finn posted Pause

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:39:15 +0000

I would have demanded better health care but waited in line at Ralph’s. Inconsistency. That’s how *I* keep it real. Or something.

Enjoy your non-stop flight (s).
Gwen posted Pictures deface walls more than they decorate them

By: claire

claire — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:55:13 +0000

Good for you, Neil! How stressful though. Not my forte at all. Sounds like you’ve grown* when it was needed. *Not tough or callous but willing to demand what is right.

I hope your father in law is doing better. My best to you all.
claire posted 28 The Book of Codes