Ugh! This noon we have to traipse to the far side of the galaxy for another round of poking and prodding at the Mayo.
How can I do without that? Let me count the ways!
Way #1 is simply that I do not believe anything serious ails me. For that reason, this medico-charade strikes me as a fine waste of time and gasoline. (Believe me about that last item: it takes a quarter tank of gas to get out there!)
Meanwhile, other more immediate issues pile up.
A piece of pool-cleaning equipment fell apart. I need to get to the pool store (walking ten blocks through 114-degree heat) and get it fixed or buy another one.
I need a car i need a car i need a car i need… You can’t live in Phoenix without a car. Therefore, I need a car translates that I either have to go buy one or go rent one.
My son persists in confiscating the Dog Chariot, so I’ve decided to give up and just let him have the damn thing (let him explain that to the insurance company!). To fill its place, I can either walk up to a car rental outfit about eight or ten blocks up the road, or go over to a dealer and buy one.
Theoretically, I’m enjoined from driving. Why? Because I’m old, apparently. Our honored bureaucrats can explain their reasoning (such as it is) to my lawyer.
Complicating this matter, my redoubtable lawyer died a few weeks ago. It appears his partners have simply shut down his office. No one answers the phone. So now I need to find a new lawyer.
It’s been sooooo long since I was married to one of the most prominent lawyers in the state that I now no longer know anyone in practice. The bastards have all retired, if you can imagine the nerve!
Seriously: no one that I know is still practicing law; at least not that I can find. So somehow I’ve gotta get someone to refer me to someone and then get that second someone to see me and persuade him/her that they want me as a potential client and…ohhhhhhh gawd!
So sooner or later, I’ve got to get off that dime.
And ya know what? I don’t wanna!!!
Come to think of it…I don’t wanna do anything. Nothin’. Not anything at all.