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Cal finding the end of his teather
Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Started conversation Sep 22, 2006
Today I rang the doctors 
(please note that names have been changed to protect the innocent)
Me: Can I speak to Doc Holiday please
Receptionist (Here after, shall be known as the Battleaxe): What is it about
Me: what I've been seeing him about
Battleaxe: Which is?
Me: None of your business
Battleaxe: I'm sorry if you won't tell me what it's about then I can't put you through.
Me: *sighs* I've had a chest infection for a month which has been creating all sorts of problems and now I'm phyiscally exhusted!
Battleaxe: She can't talk to you now she'll be in surgery until half past five you'll have to ring back then
Me 
of so you were just being nosey then!
Battleaxe: I beg your pardon?
Me: you were just being nosey when you asked me what the call was about because you already knew you weren't going to put me through to her
Battleaxe: really we don't have to put up with such rudeness
Me: and paitents do?
Click! then I hear the soft hum of a discontected line *sighs* these things are sent to try us and try us they will.
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
It was really a reflex test... to see how long before you hung up the phone.
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
she picked the wrong person then, I'd quite happily sit there and argue the toss until the end of time 
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
While she ticks the 'argumentative' box on the form?
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Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear } Posted Sep 22, 2006
Unfortunately our family GP has the rudest receptionist on this planet. And I have learned that the ONLY way to get where I need to is to grit the teeth and "play nice". But if she ever knew half the words I'm wanting to be saying, ... She'd faint dead away, I'm sure.
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
Evangline thats probably quite true
Nick I'm sorry to tell you this but every doctor's receptionist is like that, I think they go to a special training school to make them that way or maybe they're some sort of andriod manufactured by the government to stop us being sick 
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Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear } Posted Sep 22, 2006
Hmmm, you may be right. It would be down-right frightening if I could mail you a pic of her and you'd recognize her as yours
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
Maybe these receptionists are in training to be.... *looks around*... telemarketers.
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Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear } Posted Sep 22, 2006
Or collection agency operatives. Hmmmm, the plot becomes clearer ...
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
oh no they are must worse than that.
half the time they insist on getting all the info on your ins and outs then decideing themselves whether or not your illness is in fact a valid illness and you should be granted with an appointment with the doctor </>
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
That's not a receptionist, that's a bouncer.
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
and theres 3 of them at my doctors
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Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear } Posted Sep 22, 2006
Well yes, I do have a plot. Already with some granite parked there. But I digress ...
One day, I'd love to just call them, and as soon as they start their interminable questions, put them on hold with the complete "World Works of Elevator Music". 
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
four seasons by vivaldi is par for the course here
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
I have my mother's country music collection to torment... I mean entertain telemarketers.
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Sep 22, 2006
There's a lab somewhere in transylvania where they breed Doctor's receptionists, it's the same place they breed catering managers, Personnel managers (I know they're called Human Resources now but I call them Personnel to 
them off) and secretaries
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Evangeline Posted Sep 22, 2006
That explains so much, especially the accents.
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Cal - interim high priest of the Church of the Holy Tail Posted Sep 22, 2006
hey my secretary is nice
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Sep 22, 2006
There is the odd reject (Too Nice) 
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