Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

vivatifosi

chewy... sorry to hear that. What did you decide in the end? Exchange?

It's a b*gger but hopefully the stresses will be short lived and you'll be in your new home soon.

Miroslav

chewmylegoff wrote: »

We had to wait for nearly 4 hours to be seen at Kingston hospital today. Admittedly 30 mins of that was because we turned up 30 minutes early for our appointment but the other 3.5 hours was not.

Some of the waiting time was spent receiving frazzled calls from the estate agent (see above) which did not improve my already foul mood.

Waiting in hospitals is one of the most mind numbing things known to human beings.

Did you have anything to do/read whilst waiting?

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Then says his clients can't do the date we proposed for completion because they have work meetings on that date.

Suggest they do the day/week before.

I would still go for exchange asap...just to have certainty.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

We had to wait for nearly 4 hours to be seen at Kingston hospital today. Admittedly 30 mins of that was because we turned up 30 minutes early for our appointment but the other 3.5 hours was not.

Commiserations

chewmylegoff

Miroslav wrote: »

Waiting in hospitals is one of the most mind numbing things known to human beings.

Did you have anything to do/read whilst waiting?

Nope, forgot to take our kindles so just sat there going slowly mad. They didn't even have any magazines to read. Usually you can count on there being a 6 month old copy of OK or something like that. The most excitement was going out to the car after 2 hours and buying another 2 hours of parking...

Last time there was a TV in the waiting room which was actually worse as it was on sky news which played the same 10 minute piece about the fruitless search for debris from the missing plane over and over again. I was lucky to not go postal.

lostinrates

Ok, my take on waiting in hospitals is that I
To boring and sometimes stressful, but, it also indicates you might have a dr who is actually listening to things.

I never mind 'that' much. Good consultants don't stop in the middle of something important because the clock ticks. This has impact, but means you will get the same consideration.

I explain this to consultants who have made me wait when they apologise. They way I see it is they see eager often to prove me right, even if I strongly suspect they actually were having a coffee or late lunch and thought ' patients can wait'.

CKhalvashi

Miroslav wrote: »

It's just a small bag with something to build in - this poster here shows what you get each day (although Friday and Saturday of this week are missed off) http://3.vsr.vz.tl/assets/images/cached/lHB3MPv-360.jpg

Daily Mail is 60p, 90p on a Saturday and £1.50 on Sunday.

Great value really considering lego is quite expensive these days.

That's not bad value, actually.

My DD's are older than that now, but my sister has younger children, and I know reads the DM (but isn't a supporter of UKIP), so she's probably buying them.

vivatifosi wrote: »

CK... your tour list needs updating to include Valetta and Vienna.

We had such a good time we're considering going to the latter.

Will do now.

Viva, I'd seriously consider Valetta for the final, too if I were you. It's somewhere else with some serious talent (as you saw from Gaia)

chewmylegoff

Yeah to be fair when we did get into see someone we didn't just get rushed out in 5 mins by someone who didn't care, which I suppose is why we had to wait so long in the first place.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Yeah to be fair when we did get into see someone we didn't just get rushed out in 5 mins by someone who didn't care, which I suppose is why we had to wait so long in the first place.

Hospitals are depressing places to at at the best of times. DW hurt her hand and we went to A and E at Kingston Hospital yonks ago. Every time we got near to the front of the queue a bunch of car accident victims would come in and push us to the back. Friday night in Kingston feels like the kind of place you drive at your own risk!

Sorry about the house hassle. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

Hospitals are depressing places to at at the best of times. DW hurt her hand and we went to A and E at Kingston Hospital yonks ago. Every time we got near to the front of the queue a bunch of car accident victims would come in and push us to the back. Friday night in Kingston feels like the kind of place you drive at your own risk!

Sorry about the house hassle. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Not sure if you are being ironic in a "yeah emergency patients in accident and emergency" kind of way.

Sorry about your wife's hand.

Is it quite a small A&E or do they have a majors and minors? Serious car accidents/major trauma go via majors and hands probably triaged to minors.

I suspect many A&E departments are over run with alcohol related cases and social problem people on Friday nights.