Sleeping In, Airplanes, and an Interesting "Encounter"

Ok, so...day started with the alarm snooze button being hit more times than it should have been. Let's just say, the 6:20am airplane flight to NY turned into a 10:30am flight. I'll leave it at that. I said, though, might be a blessing in disguise -- Cam has some homework to get done, I think a few hours in the airport might take care of some of that.

Here's my, well, interesting encounter at the doctor's office this morning. (It's long, sorry)

I was sitting in my doctor's office this morning, waiting for my re-draw of blood, when the office door opens, I notice a man come in and he goes to the window. The window is opened more quickly than usual, not sure if the man even wrote his name down on the clipboard that we mere mortals have to write our names down on. Even those of us not needing to see a doctor, we just want to breeze in and out with a quick draw of the blood. Anyway, the receptionist chats with the man, at first I didn't pay any attention, but then looked up to hear his voice that sounded familiar. Something about his co-pay and does he still have some kind of insurance. It appeared that he whipped a bill out of his wallet that looked like a bill I would barely recognize since I don't normally carry such large bills around, a $100 and hands it out to the receptionist who declines to take it. Think she says something like your sister already paid or that's what your sister pays? I don't know. But by this time I figure out from his voice who he sounds like. He turns from the window...the tension is mounting, isn't it? Comes and sits down 2 chairs from me. I'm looking at him, can't help it. He looks at me, he needs a shave for sure. i say something like, how are ya? You can't go anywhere w/o that voice being recognized, he is pleasant, says, "not many places". Of course I have to keep chit chatting with him, that's the way I am. I ask him, so do you think they're going to be able to do much this year. He says, "they have a shot". I said "what's up w/spezio". He says, "I am kind of far removed from them right now. i just know what's out in the public domain (yeah he used those words), I said, what's in the public domain, all I know is that his finger is infected? (I am really falling down on my job, I normally am up on all of this.) He says, Oh, he's in rehab. I shreiked! I didn't know that, did you? He says, yeah, I don't know what for, just rehab. I was shocked. I said I saw him in spring training w/his wife and young kids, that is a shame. He says, yeah it really is. Then more quickly than anyone in a doctor's office I have ever seen get their name called, the receptionist opens the door and says..."Joe"? Mr. Buck rises from the chair, gives a little smile and off he goes. Oh, forgot one thing: at the beginning of my chit chatting, I couldn't resist. Have you seen that commercial w/him in it where these dweeb guys say to him "can I touch your throat while you say, swing and a miss"? I couldn't resist, I said something like, "I could give it one of these", and touched my throat -- he did crack up. I said you have to admit that was funny. He said, yeah it was.

Now, for the moral of the story. There was an older gentlemen sitting in the office with me, of course he didn't strike up or participate in the conversation, I am like that, though. After Joe went into the office, and the nurse asked him if he could give urine sample -- Joe says, "I'll give it a try", (sorry, couldn't resist that), the other man and I chatted. He commented on how crazy these people with all of this money get themselves messed up in drugs and other things. I said it just goes to show, money is not the answer. The man says, "well it sure couldn't hurt." I said well, I guess it sure can. If you don't have a relationship with God, and have a plan for your life, all that money does is bring havoc on alot of people. Granted, I'd like to give it a try sometime :) but here are those people with all of this money still searching....for happiness I guess??? About that time, the man kind of clammed up, then his name was called.