MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 20
th, 2025 at 7:57am:
Sophia wrote on Jul 20
th, 2025 at 7:12am:
What was her beef, I wonder. Nothing to watch on Netflix?
Ooohh… I told daughter a story of when I was younger and took a sickie off from work, went to doctor for doc cert…. there was a new fill in doctor, an absolute a-hole… and he refused to give me one, I said, but Dr. Hardy gives me one, and he says “I’m not Dr. Hardy”
I said how I have to travel 3 hours total daily to go to work and he just kept up with the condensation remarks, I don’t look sick enough to take a day off work etc.
I also said the (contraceptive) pill prescription (I was 22 years old and newly wed) is too strong and was making me put on weight, he says I eat too much pasta! (Reference to my Italian background no doubt)
Anyway… if you watch that vid again Meister, and read what it’s saying each time the gal comes in with her flying fists etc

you would get it then why I felt that way.
When daughter sent it to me I PMSL!
By the way… I tried to make that foolish hard headed doctor understand how much train travel I do daily and he just poo-pooed me.
So get this….. one freezing cold 6.30 am winter morning, I’m on the old red rattlers heading to flinders street (early 1970s) and was getting quite squishy with passengers. I looked at a man in front of me reading a newspaper, I recognised him (the a-hole doctor) and I thought wow, suffer in ya jocks and he looked at me and the look in his face when he recognised me… he lifted his newspaper up high to cover his face.
Obviously he lost that cushy doctors job … others must’ve complained. Big mistake he didn’t show more empathy towards patients, in our area at the time, with very few doctors and so many patients sitting in the waiting room 2 hours for appointment.