Done
Congratulations! You have won and achieved your goal of taking control of my child's medical needs, no matter what they or their parents might believe.
I scheduled the PCR test for K that is required for her to go to OVFF without getting a COVID booster which is of dubious value for teenagers. I took time off from work today to take her to Walgreens to take the PCR test, which was going to cost us $99.99, because it is not covered by our insurance.
They did not actually *have* the test kit, because -- unsurprisingly! -- there is apparently no demand whatsoever in the real world to pay $99.99 for a PCR test. Much like the famous Seinfeld episode, they are good at *taking* the reservation; they just aren't actually good at *administering* the test.
They offered to try to find a Walgreens *somewhere* that had the test in stock. No telling where. No telling *when*. And the test has to be administered today in order to receive the results on a timely basis because the PCR test requires 48 hours to get the results back.
I gave up. I submitted to your demands. And I asked my child if they were willing to take the booster shot and they said it would be ok.
And so they have taken the vaccine, against our and her better judgement, because the little gauntlet that you set up to be run turned out to be a choice that didn't actually exist.
K has a lot of things that she needs to finish before we leave for the con. Hopefully, she will not have any of the minor (or major) bad reactions to the vaccine and will be able to complete them on a timely basis. Tonight, she's running the livestream camera for a band concert. Thursday, she'll be in a concert with the chorus. Somewhere in between, we need to send her college essay off to her Uncle Jeff to give a quick once over, because if there's a professional editor in the family, it's sort of stupid not to take advantage of it.
There's a word that many of you like to throw around, despite having zero clue about what it actually means. And that's the word that I'm thinking right now, although I know that it's the wrong word.
There's a better word to describe this. I know exactly what it is.
But I don't plan to be using it right now.
I scheduled the PCR test for K that is required for her to go to OVFF without getting a COVID booster which is of dubious value for teenagers. I took time off from work today to take her to Walgreens to take the PCR test, which was going to cost us $99.99, because it is not covered by our insurance.
They did not actually *have* the test kit, because -- unsurprisingly! -- there is apparently no demand whatsoever in the real world to pay $99.99 for a PCR test. Much like the famous Seinfeld episode, they are good at *taking* the reservation; they just aren't actually good at *administering* the test.
They offered to try to find a Walgreens *somewhere* that had the test in stock. No telling where. No telling *when*. And the test has to be administered today in order to receive the results on a timely basis because the PCR test requires 48 hours to get the results back.
I gave up. I submitted to your demands. And I asked my child if they were willing to take the booster shot and they said it would be ok.
And so they have taken the vaccine, against our and her better judgement, because the little gauntlet that you set up to be run turned out to be a choice that didn't actually exist.
K has a lot of things that she needs to finish before we leave for the con. Hopefully, she will not have any of the minor (or major) bad reactions to the vaccine and will be able to complete them on a timely basis. Tonight, she's running the livestream camera for a band concert. Thursday, she'll be in a concert with the chorus. Somewhere in between, we need to send her college essay off to her Uncle Jeff to give a quick once over, because if there's a professional editor in the family, it's sort of stupid not to take advantage of it.
There's a word that many of you like to throw around, despite having zero clue about what it actually means. And that's the word that I'm thinking right now, although I know that it's the wrong word.
There's a better word to describe this. I know exactly what it is.
But I don't plan to be using it right now.