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One of those days....

Take a look at this car.
This guy has been driving around like this since we arrived here in 1997.
We lived downtown for the first year and I got quite accustomed to seeing, and hearing this driving around Milwaukee.
The driver claims to have had some sort of religious revelation some years ago and has been trying to spread the word ever since.
He has a microphone and loud speakers.  He blasts out his message but, to be honest, no one can really make out what he is saying so it is mostly lost on the punters.
Looking at the car, I can see that it would not be legal in the UK.
'Health and safety' would have a fit.

A friend of ours went to a 'bit of a do' at the Harley Davidson Museum.
The city was heaving with bikes and bikers.
The ground shuddered and trembled under the rumbling of the formidable might of the Harley Davidson bikes.
There were fearsome sights to behold at the gathering.
Here is one of them............


This would strike fear into the bravest of souls.
I think the horns on the hat are a nice touch.

I went to see my doctor yesterday.
This is quite an ordeal in itself as I have to get two buses which do not connect very well.
Anyway, I had worked out the timetable and got there ok.
I told my doctor about the research I had done, re my angina, and the findings which pointed at the cause being a hormone deficiency, rather than blocked arteries.
She agreed totally with me.  In fact I think she was a little embarrassed that no one had thought of it before.
So she should be...if it turns out to be the case.
The so called specialists I have seen have never even mentioned that such a thing was possible.   I should not have had to find this out for myself when we are paying (literally) these doctors a lot of money (again literally) to do just that.
She has given me some new meds to try for six months to see if it does the trick.
I do hope it does.
On Monday I have to back to see the specialist.  I shall tell him all about it too.  I wonder what he will say?
Anyway, having got there reasonably well via two buses, I then had to return home also via two buses.
Hmmm.........things did not go so well this time.
The first bus was late.   I have a two minute connection time and it was obvious I wasn't going to make it.  The next bus was about an hour later.
Feeling clever, and possibly a bit flustered, I decided that if I got off the first bus at an earlier stop I could get another one from there.
This was perfectly true.  I could.
Well, I could have if I had got off  (notice I didn't say 'gotten')....over here people always say 'gotten'....I can't stand it, - anyway  I digress, -  I could have if I had got off at the right stop.
I did not get off at the right stop.  There was absolutely nothing right about where I got off.  What to do?
Walk..........that was all I could do.   I had a vague idea of the direction.  We had driven this way many times and it didn't seem far.
Sigh.
I walked, and walked and walked and walked.
The temperature was around 90F .....I don't know something in the 30s in old money.
My leg hurt and my knee hurt.  It took me ages.  It never seemed that far in the car !!!
When  I told Philip where I had walked from he said it was about 3 and a half miles away.
Plus, somewhere along the way I lost the order for the blood test the doctor gave me to find out if the statins I am now taking are doing me any good or harm.
I won't do that again.

posted by Sue Banks @ 6:05 PM