Trust, But Verify ...

November
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So as fate would have it, I awakened in the wee hours of Tuesday. Rolling over and checking my timepiece, I saw that it was barely 0415. Too damned early to get up.

As I rolled over and attempted to go back to sleep, a small part of my brain (I like to call it the "pain in my ass" part of my brain) whispered, "Don't you have a doctor's appointment today? At like 1500, meaning you'll have to leave work early then make the time up later."

I lay there, I thought about it. If I got in before 0700, I would only have to make up maybe an hour, no problem really. But what the heck, I'm tired. I want to sleep.

The PITA part of my brain just gave me a smug look and whispered, "Oh well, I'm sure you know best."

0500, well before sunup, I said, "The heck with it, I'll get up now. I'll still get in wicked¹ early."

So up I got, to the shower I went, and some time later arrived at my place of employment. The sun was almost up (it came up at 0653 according to my sources) so I went in and got to it.

At 1345 I departed work for a 1500 medical appointment. I arrived at the appointed time (which of course was 15 minutes early) and checked in.

The nice lady at reception asked my name, my address, and kept glancing from the computer to me, as if the world was somehow off its axis.

"Uh, your appointment is Wednesday."

In my mind I'm thinking, "And today is Wednesday, is it not?"

But no, it most certainly was not.

Yes, I had arrived at my 1500 appointment early ...

Twenty-four hours early.

I could have sworn on Monday that the nice lady who scheduled the appointment had said, "We have a couple of times tomorrow," at least that's what I think I heard, "and some on Thursday."

Thinking more about getting it over with, rather than actually paying attention, I said "Let's shoot for tomorrow." (Really, I swear that's what I said.)

Maybe the lady said she had times on Tuesday and Thursday, maybe I just heard it that way. We'll perhaps never know.

I did check the appointment data I'd sent to my cell phone after the fact. Yup, clearly said the 20th of November, not the 19th.

So today, WEDNESDAY, I get to try again.

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Like Buck was wont to say, "It's always sumthin' ..."

¹ A very New England adjective, means "very." So "wicked early" = "very early." Trust me on this one. I was born in New England, I speak the lingo. Well, most of it anyway, I don't say "chowdah," I say "chowder." At least I think I do ...