You see this? This is not two cars, y’all. This is one car split into two pieces.

This happened here a few days ago.

This car was driving along on the west bound side of the freeway, and a van cut them off, caused them to swerve hard then lose control of the car, and they ended up on the east bound side of the freeway getting hit by two other cars. Hard. At a high speed. The car exploded and split into two pieces. Yes, someone died. The driver lived (so far) but his passenger/wife was thrown from the car and run over and died. Everyone else involved survived, including the one who cut them off. They fled and haven’t been found.

Oh yeah, and here’s the other two cars involved, both of which were forced to slam into the other one:

All that because someone cut someone off on the interstate. Do not do that. Ever. Please.

I was supposed to go get the sonogram and mammogram today. Originally they scheduled me for 11:30 for the sonogram and 1:00 for the mammogram, just across the street from the location of the sonogram. Then they rescheduled the sonogram to 10:00, so I figured I’d just grab lunch or something while I waited between appointments, and took the whole day off work.

They told me to have a full bladder, but I forgot about that before I left the house, so I had to buy water *grumble grumble*.
This is the only option I found, SmartWater.

$1.59 for a bottle of water. That’s not very smart.

Checking in at the hospital, I was surprised to see they now give you pagers, like at a busy restaurant:

But I didn’t have to wait long at all. I was called back within 10 minutes and immediately the sonogram was started. It was painful because I had to pee so bad I felt like my bladder would bust every time she moved that thing around on me. I was finished by 10:40.

Well I didn’t want to drive all the way back home, and I was near the mall, so I called my sister who lives nearby and we did a little shopping.
She decided to go to my mammogram with me at 1:00.

And that’s where the trouble was.

We walk into the office for the mammogram and find it so crowded that there was not one available seat. I checked in and the lady hands me a ton of paperwork to fill out. Which I started doing standing up. I thought, surely someone will be called back soon and I can sit down and do this. But after about half the paperwork was finished, nobody had been called back yet. I asked a girl near me how long she had been there, and she said since 11:00. I asked when her appointment was, she said “11:30, and they told me to be here half an hour early.” And it was now 1:15? The lady across from her said “I’ve been here since 10:00.” WHAT?

So I went up to the desk and asked the lady there how long I could expect to wait. She said, with an “I’m sorry” look on her face “A few hours.” WHAT?

I immediately said, “I want to reschedule for the next available date that I can have THE FIRST appointment time.” I refuse to wait for hours at for an appointment that was scheduled far in advance. This is not a walk-in. This is an appointment. They expect me to be early and I expect to be seen on time, or at least very soon after. So that’s been rescheduled to Sept. 10 at 7:15 a.m.

See, that’s my pet peeve, right there. Why do so many doctors overbook? What makes them schedule 10 people for the same time? Do they think my time is not as valuable as theirs? Then they have the gall to tell people to be EARLY???? WHAT??????????

I really don’t have anything interesting to talk about this week, that’s why I haven’t posted.
Boring things about the past week:

The front brakes on my car started grinding. Hubs replaced the pads yesterday. He used to be a brake and front end mechanic so that was easy enough for him.

I finally got Sara a car. A 99 Toyota Corolla. However, the driver’s seatbelt is pulled all the way out and won’t go back in so I’ll have to get that fixed before she can drive it. Between the two of us, we’ve put 60,000 miles on my car in a year. So I’ll be glad when she’s driving her own car.

Things at work have (finally) been slow. No new web projects, just finishing up old ones. Not much in the way of news, either.

YAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWN