I’ve had a shortage of texts in the last few weeks. People I have texted haven’t even been answering me, which must surely be a sign of something.
It all came to an end this week. First I had a text to tell me the surgery had tried to call but had been unable to get through. This wasn’t quite true – they had got through but had put the phone down as I picked up. However, by doing that and texting they made me pay for the call.
Then I had one from the bank telling me that internet banking was going to be down at the weekend. As I don’t use internet banking this really doesn’t bother me. I reckon that if I don’t use it I will be harder to hack.
Finally I had one from my dentist to say they had to cancel my appointment. I’ve been waiting five and a half months for that appointment and was looking forward to having my crown refixed.
I rang to rearrange the appointment and now have two. One, next week, will fix my crown and the other, in a month, will be my six-monthly check up. I suspect this means that I will have to pay twice, but I can’t keep going for another month with a loose chunk of gold running amok in my mouth. Regular readers may recall me mentioning that I had a similar problem a few years back and ended up swallowing it. At the current price of gold I don’t want a repeat of that.
Actually, it wasn’t final, I’ve just had one to tell me that I’m having a parcel delivered tomorrow. I’m not sure I needed to know that as I’d have guessed when I got home and found a parcel.
Texting used to be useful, now it seems on the verge of becoming another branch of junk mail.
Now, Quercus, do tell. Did you recover the gold?
No, because I was under the impression it was low quality gold and not worth the effort. Now I know it is around 15 carat I will definitely have to look for it if I swallow it again. 🙂
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Yes, texts can be junk mail – especially when junk mailers get your number. Fortunately, with my iPhone I can block a number if a caller/texter is bothering me. And they don’t even know that I’ve done it. Better not do that with your dentist or bank, I guess.
Not the dentist, but the bank is tempting…
Oh yes, I can see that 😃
My texting activities would be more useful if I remembered to carry my phone around with me.
That seems to make sense…
Swallowing gold sounds like not much fun at all.
It isn’t. 🙂