I DONT BELIEVE IT. 
I had to take the wife to the hospital this morning 9:15 appointment, not at our local hospital that we can walk to, but one 15 miles away. Instead of driving through the city I decided to take the motorway around, big mistake 30 minutes to do 4 miles lane 2 of 5 going nowhere :headbang:
Arrived at hospital to find a sign at the car park access road saying road closed and a diversion sign, a further 5 minute drive to find myself back at the sign again :headbang: , wife says someone just went down go and follow them, turns out the road is closed after the entrance to the car park, so all good, parked up with 10 minutes to spare.
Walked across road to hospital and sign says āmain entranceā to the left, no itās not thatās the cancer department, asked a member of staff and directed down corridors to reach reception, yes weāre here and just in time for appointment, self check in, scan QR code on letter, No not working, advised the system has a fault and not been working for months, so select language, ethnicity, month born, date born, year born, is name etc correct, confirm contact details, input any changes, have you had Covid, and several others Iāve now forgotten, āthank you, you are now checked inā nothing to say where to go, a kind assessment advised us where to go when we were looking completely lost, 30 feet down the corridor thereās a TV screen displaying my wifeās name and where to go, :headbang: who designs these systems and do they ever use them?
Arrived in the outpatients department and took a seat to wait, ādo you fancy a coffee while youāre waiting ā the wife asks, so at the vending machine, select drink, size, strength, payment (card only) payment declined, try again, payment declined, turns out thereās no internet connection for the machine, so back downstairs to reception, next machine, out of milk, so off to cafeteria and finally got a coffee
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Back upstairs to outpatients just in time for the wife to go in, 10 minutes later sheās back out, they did the exact same tests as sheād had at the opticians who referred her and no eye drops so no need for her not to drive and me having to take her, which it started on her appointment letter.
So back home and I now find Iāve lost my reading glasses somewhere between the waiting room and the car park, it didnāt help with my wife asking āwhere have you lost themā, if I knew that I wouldnāt have lost them, anyway back to the hospital retraced my steps but no sign of them, I remember the car door not closing 1st time when I got in, and I think thatās where they fell out of my coat pocket, the lady in the car park must have thought I was mad running round doing press ups on the wet tarmac.
I think this morning could definitely have been a script for āone foot in the graveā :rofl:
I had to take the wife to the hospital this morning 9:15 appointment, not at our local hospital that we can walk to, but one 15 miles away. Instead of driving through the city I decided to take the motorway around, big mistake 30 minutes to do 4 miles lane 2 of 5 going nowhere :headbang:
Arrived at hospital to find a sign at the car park access road saying road closed and a diversion sign, a further 5 minute drive to find myself back at the sign again :headbang: , wife says someone just went down go and follow them, turns out the road is closed after the entrance to the car park, so all good, parked up with 10 minutes to spare.
Walked across road to hospital and sign says āmain entranceā to the left, no itās not thatās the cancer department, asked a member of staff and directed down corridors to reach reception, yes weāre here and just in time for appointment, self check in, scan QR code on letter, No not working, advised the system has a fault and not been working for months, so select language, ethnicity, month born, date born, year born, is name etc correct, confirm contact details, input any changes, have you had Covid, and several others Iāve now forgotten, āthank you, you are now checked inā nothing to say where to go, a kind assessment advised us where to go when we were looking completely lost, 30 feet down the corridor thereās a TV screen displaying my wifeās name and where to go, :headbang: who designs these systems and do they ever use them?
Arrived in the outpatients department and took a seat to wait, ādo you fancy a coffee while youāre waiting ā the wife asks, so at the vending machine, select drink, size, strength, payment (card only) payment declined, try again, payment declined, turns out thereās no internet connection for the machine, so back downstairs to reception, next machine, out of milk, so off to cafeteria and finally got a coffee
,Back upstairs to outpatients just in time for the wife to go in, 10 minutes later sheās back out, they did the exact same tests as sheād had at the opticians who referred her and no eye drops so no need for her not to drive and me having to take her, which it started on her appointment letter.
So back home and I now find Iāve lost my reading glasses somewhere between the waiting room and the car park, it didnāt help with my wife asking āwhere have you lost themā, if I knew that I wouldnāt have lost them, anyway back to the hospital retraced my steps but no sign of them, I remember the car door not closing 1st time when I got in, and I think thatās where they fell out of my coat pocket, the lady in the car park must have thought I was mad running round doing press ups on the wet tarmac.
I think this morning could definitely have been a script for āone foot in the graveā :rofl:
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