What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[Pyu76]

Ok, I gotta grind...

So, near the end of the work day yesterday I get a call from The Wife - daycare had called her; The Kid fell in the playground and gashed her forehead, we needed to take her to get stitches. Apparently they don't do that sort of thing at urgent care anymore, at least to 3 year olds; we had to take her to the ER (which has an insurance copay almost 3X the urgent care copay...)

I meet them at the hospital and sure enough - she's got a vertical gash on the upper right center of her forehead about 3/4" long and puckered open about 1/4". Takes three stitches to close. The Wife's all worried about a disfiguring scar (though if we keep her from picking out the stitches and then away from UV for a while it'll be barely noticeable, if at all). The Kid is obviously a bit traumatized; the thing must have bled like hell all over the place. But she's a real trooper getting those stitches put in.

Afterwards The Kid decides she wants to ride with me back. Aside from needing to stock up on some bandages and fresh neosporin, this ER visit kibashed our dinner plans and I need to pick up something along the way. I swing into the local Popeye's drive-through.

After paying, a guy sticks his head out of the window and asks me to pull around to the front and they'll bring it out to me. I do so. And time passes. And passes. While The Kid's in the back going, "where's my mashed potatoes?". They had got behind on their stock of cooked chicken and were having to do another batch. That happens now and then but it's annoying that they don't forecast their turnover more accurately. But usually they give me some sort of warning about the wait time so I have the chance to change or cancel my order. Not this time.

It takes a full 20 minutes for me to get the food. No exaggeration, I was comparing the timestamp on the receipt with the current time. That's a long time for the circumstances. When we get it, no extra biscuit or something for the delay, not even a "sorry for the wait", just a "what was your order? Here you go..."

So we get the bandages and get home and bust out some Popeye's. And they screwed it up. A four-piece meal is supposed to be all dark meat; I confirmed they noted it correctly on the receipt back when I paid. Yet we get a full white / dark mix. None of us like white meat chicken, aside from some chicken strips.

But we also have a chicken strip meal. And they're old, dry, and cold - those strips were obviously already cooked and sitting around when I ordered. And then they sat around for another 20 minutes while they were cooking the rest of the food. If they're gonna make me wait 20 minutes for my food, is it too much to ask that the entire meal is fresh? I mean, strips take 5 minutes to cook...

Sure, they had no idea I had a traumatized, hungry 3 year old in the back. And sometimes there's a wait while they catch up on their cooking. And sometime orders get screwed up. And sometimes the food you're served has been sitting around a little bit. But all of these little things at the same time add up to a comedy of errors that's a big thing. If I had any idea what to expect when I pulled in there, I would have gone anywhere else, even McDonalds (gag).

Yeah, these are all 1st world problems, but, bottom line, that's just incompetent management. And it grinds my gears.

F you, Popeye's!

Im sorry about the stitches. Last time i gashed my head wide open, the hospital gave me glue work wonders. No itch or picking and desolves by itself in 2-3 weeks so no going back to the hospital to get the taken off. BTW sorry pops did you guys like that.

 

[Duke Nivram]

 

[kronin323]

lol I forgot about that one...

 

[Dallas O Hog]

Buyer DLZ86 on ebay. Ur a tool and don't bid on my items. I know ur here on the forum. Wait till after my auction runs full course to want to cancel. Screw u! Always low balling then don't want to pay. I can't afford everything either that's why I buy what I can afford. What sucks is ebay won't even give u a slap on the wrist

 

[QLR1]

Buyer DLZ86 on ebay. Ur a tool and don't bid on my items. I know ur here on the forum. Wait till after my auction runs full course to want to cancel. Screw u! Always low balling then don't want to pay. I can't afford everything either that's why I buy what I can afford. What sucks is ebay won't even give u a slap on the wrist

Luckily for him, he won't meet you in a dark alley!

 

[kronin323]

Im sorry about the stitches. Last time i gashed my head wide open, the hospital gave me glue work wonders. No itch or picking and desolves by itself in 2-3 weeks so no going back to the hospital to get the taken off. BTW sorry pops did you guys like that.

It's funny - as our 3 year old is about to get stitched up, The Wife and I share that neither of us have ever had stitches in our lives.

Not that I've never needed stitches - I can easily think of four gashes / punctures I've had that needed stitches, and if I thought about it I could come up with more. I just normally do my own 1st aid. Of course, I have a lot of scars, too...

One in particular that comes to mind was one time when I was about to go on a mountain bike ride with some buds. Meeting them at their place, I squeeze through a tight gap between a car and a wall and catch the edge of the license plate with my knee - it opens me like a zipper, about a 2" gash right over the kneecap all the way through the skin; I can see tendons and crap through it.

Trying to stop the bleeding, I remember being pissed that they didn't have a 1st aid kit at the house. I guess with all the 1st aid training I had growing up, it seemed an obvious household staple and it astounded me that they didn't have anything.

Anyway, I bandaged up with some paper towels and duck tape and headed to the store to get some antibiotic (neosporin), butterfly closures, and proper bandaging. Then I went to the trailhead, patched up my knee in the bed of my truck, then went on my hard-core 14 mile mountain bike ride. I was determined not to miss that ride...

There's a visible scar now but it's not too noticeable.

 

[QLR1]

At work, I get these news clippings... I like looking at them, but I hate it when the service links to paywalled articles. Damn Damn Damn

 

[702baby]

When I take a $#!+ and you're dump is so huge that it needs multiple flushes to get it to flush

 

[Dallas O Hog]

When I take a $#!+ and you're dump is so huge that it needs multiple flushes to get it to flush

Lol

 

[Rustpot]

That's an accomplishment.