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Legs
This afternoon my husband, daughter and I attended a birthday celebration at my in-law’s house. My husband’s grandmother is not the nicest, and she seems to enjoy acting her shoe size, rather than her age, if you know what I mean. Today, the first thing she said to my husband, who was dressed in cargo shorts, was: “You have ugly legs”. She then said, “When you are 91 you can say whatever you want”. I told her that I thought his legs were hot, then I laughed until I cried because in the car on the way to the party my husband predicted that she’d pick on him today, rather than me. He, of course, was right.
Here’s a picture of the so-called “ugly legs”, and of course my legs too since I didn’t want him to feel like the only controversial legs on the internet was his and Michele’s.
I should have told her that what she said was completely mean, and it’s because of that exact behavior from her that I don’t want to be anywhere near her. That it’s the reason that we don’t ever visit.
I didn’t say any of it. Instead, I could not stop laughing because I couldn’t believe that my husband called it. He totally called her behavior, and it took her all of one minute to insult him.
The best part was that she said this to him in front of my husband’s family. They were finally witness to her bad behavior towards him.
Usually it’s me that she’s after. The last time I saw her was at Easter when she asked me to take part in a contest where you had to guess the number of jelly beans in the jar. The top three guessers took home a prize. I was in the top three, but instead of awarding me a prize she told me (after I had won) that I couldn’t play. When I questioned why she asked me to play just five minutes earlier, her exact words were: “Too bad, so sad.” What she had wanted to do was give each of her grandchildren some cash, and she wanted to to give the cash in the order they were born. But instead she thought she’d have them take place in a game, and figured we’d all think it was adorable that she rigged it that way. Well not me, I didn’t think it was adorable at all. Nor did my husband. And what grandma says too bad, so sad when they are told they hurt someone’s feelings? Neither of my grandma’s would do that.
Whatever.
Anyhow. So she told my husband he has ugly legs. My brother-in-law told her later that what she said was mean and that she shouldn’t have said it. This is what she said, “But it’s true.”
Well, this is what I say is true: You’re a mean old woman and I don’t care how old you are. You need to take responsibility for what comes out of your mouth.
Photos from Door County
This photo was taken from a lookout tower in Peninsula State Park in Fish Creek, Wisconsin (Door County). The view is looking straight down the tower to the ground. What you see is the sidewalk area and the top of a waist-high stone wall, as well as the tree tops. It’s pretty high up, and that small reddish thing that is above the brown beam, on the mid-left side of the picture is my husband’s bicycle. Can you see it?
The second photo is looking straight out into the Bay, I believe that is Strawberry Island.
Thursday Thirteen: 13 really great reads
(in no particular order)
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
- The Shopaholic series, Sophie Kinsella
- Jemima J., Jane Green
- The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
- Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
- Size 14 Is Not Fat, Meg Cabot
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
- Lottery, Patricia Wood
- Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Helen Fielding
- A Good Year, Peter Mayle
- The Stephanie Plum series, Janet Evanovich
- The Boy Next Door, Meg Cabot
- Sammy’s Hill, Kristin Gore
You can see my current 2007 reading list by clicking the link at the top of the screen.
Wordless Wednesday: What cookie?
wordless wednesdayIf you can’t stand the silence …. speak up at That’s My Answer!
A big fat thank you!
Remember when my husband had his kidney biopsy? Well, right after that we found out that the kidney doctor WAS NOT in our insurance plan. That meant that the we’d have to pay 100% for the biopsy out of our pocket! Since it was after the fact, there wasn’t too much we could do about it other than save our pennies.
A few weeks ago the explanation of benefits came from the insurance company, the entire bill was put towards the out-of-network deductible. The patient’s responsibility was $880. That was on top of the $550 that we already owed him from the ultrasound and a few office visits.
Today the doctor’s bill arrived. My husband ignored the envelope, saying ”I don’t even want to look at it”.
So I opened it, held my breath and looked at the grand total, blinked my eyes and looked at it again. This is what it said:
8/1/07: Biopsy charges: $880.00; W/O insurance: -$880.00; Pymt insurance: $0.00; Applied to deductible: $880.00; Patient responsiblity: $0.00.
Oh yes. He did the biopsy for free.
It makes sense as when we went back to the doctor on August 23rd to get the biopsy results he told my husband that he broke his perfect record and he wasn’t able to get a big enough sample for a biopsy. Therefore, that entire day was for nothing. So as fitting as it was, it was completely unexpected that any doctor was comp such a service.
I’ve never been so surprised and grateful except when the heating element broke in our oven and the Sears guy was about 4 hours late, had to fix it twice, and then handed me a bill for $300, then a credit for the same amount saying it was on the house because he was so late and had to fix it twice.
It really goes to show me, there are some pretty awesome people out there! Next time I see that doctor, I’m going to offer him my cat as a thank you.
Huh?
Chapter 14 of my managerial accounting class is all about JIT and TQM (that’s just in time and total quality management). The problem I need to do for class is about banking and the economy.
Huh?
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