Monday, 24 January 2022

Booster booked while battling belligerent bureaucracy.

Quite tricky finding a place for a COVID booster but got Friday appointments for me and Fi.

Here are a few thoughts jotted down in the process: 

Looks like the doc is busy. Been waiting on phone for an hour, listening to a looping music tape with a voice that repeats ‘still queued announcement comfort message’. 

I’m sure it’s unintentional but I can’t think of any better substitute message they could have come up with.

Edit: At the sixty minute mark, a voice came on and said ‘no-one is available to take your call. Please leave a message’. 😧 

No great loss. Watched tennis and updated Facebook. Thought about the schedule for this evening and tomorrow morning (phone waiting does muck up the work routine a bit. Fiddles and juggles). 

Thankfully when the med practice dumped me from the system after an hour, I phoned the chemist next door and took just five minutes to get two appointments. Pharmacists save the day!

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