Wednesday, June 16, 2010


After all my kvetching, I managed to get an appointment for today. One that didn’t entail any complicated logistics in terms of travel or leaving work early or anything like that. All a bit of an anti-climax compared to the apoplexy of yesterday. My experience of dealing with red tape and “the system” is severely limited. I have no idea how to play it and no desire to do so. The fact that nothing is ever simple galls more than anything and must surely ramp up the inefficiency that riddles even the most apparently straightforward procedures. There’s never any problem to my experience with the people who do the job. It’s the management and peripheral jobsworths that are the menace. This includes the dimbulbs that prepare the legislation.

So anyway, I have my antibiotics scrip’ but was advised to see how it goes over the next couple of days. Apparently it’s not really advised that one should neck such a thing unless it’s absolutely necessary because of all these superbugs. So we’ll see. I reckon that if I lay low until the weekend, I’ll be clear. If I were in NY, then this would be where I’d be this coming Saturday...

4 comments:

The Hound said...

"After all my kvetching"


Since when do they speak Yiddish in Scotland?
Is this a new trend? If so, I can't wait for the next Irving Welsh book.....

Scott C. said...

Also in NY on saturday, Lou Reed will reign as King Neptune in the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade, with his best gal Laurie Anderson along for the ride as his Mermaid Queen! What's the over/under on whether he will crack even a single smile along the entire parade route?

Lindsay Hutton said...

Oh, we're right multi-lingual here Jim. Don't worry about IW, his next thing is a prequel to Trainspotting I think.

Lou will be smiling in the inside Scott.

mxrich said...

IW's Yiddish prequel: Fercockt, Fermisht, and Fertummelt