Stupid people!
Jul. 7th, 2006 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
draggonlaadySomeone please explain to me just what the )(#@$ is wrong with people!!!
I just (yes, 11 PM!) got a call from a woman that wanted to know if she could bring in a wild bird for me to look at that she and her friends found earlier in the day while they were outside playing. That's all fine and dandy, but when I warned her that there'd be an emergency office call fee for that, the response was "I don't have $70 to save some stupid wild bird!"
Then she wanted to know if I thought it had the bird flu. Possible, but probably not the one everybody's scared of, what with that not being on this continent yet. "So what do you think is wrong with it?" 'Cuz I've got a magic crystal ball I can just look through and tell you without actually examining the animal.
Hell, they can't even figure out what species it is. "Maybe a quail or a pheasant or something" she says...cuz those two birds look anything similar beyond the fact that they both have feathers and feet. For all I know from her description it's a Kiwi bird that someone dropped out of an airplane.
OK, first off, $70 is a pittance for an emergency fee--I got smacked with a $500 bill for walking into the emergency room in Spokane. But onto the things that really annoy me: why did you call me at all if you're not willing to pay for anything? Why did you wait until after most working people are asleep to call when you found the bird several hours ago? What did you think I was going to do, drop my life (boring as it is) to come in after I'm already in my pajamas so I can not get paid for my time and effort? It's a business, not a charity, people. Let's join the real world please.
I just (yes, 11 PM!) got a call from a woman that wanted to know if she could bring in a wild bird for me to look at that she and her friends found earlier in the day while they were outside playing. That's all fine and dandy, but when I warned her that there'd be an emergency office call fee for that, the response was "I don't have $70 to save some stupid wild bird!"
Then she wanted to know if I thought it had the bird flu. Possible, but probably not the one everybody's scared of, what with that not being on this continent yet. "So what do you think is wrong with it?" 'Cuz I've got a magic crystal ball I can just look through and tell you without actually examining the animal.
Hell, they can't even figure out what species it is. "Maybe a quail or a pheasant or something" she says...cuz those two birds look anything similar beyond the fact that they both have feathers and feet. For all I know from her description it's a Kiwi bird that someone dropped out of an airplane.
OK, first off, $70 is a pittance for an emergency fee--I got smacked with a $500 bill for walking into the emergency room in Spokane. But onto the things that really annoy me: why did you call me at all if you're not willing to pay for anything? Why did you wait until after most working people are asleep to call when you found the bird several hours ago? What did you think I was going to do, drop my life (boring as it is) to come in after I'm already in my pajamas so I can not get paid for my time and effort? It's a business, not a charity, people. Let's join the real world please.
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Date: 2006-07-08 11:46 am (UTC)BBQ.
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Date: 2006-07-08 11:44 pm (UTC)