Play nice?

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Actually, yes, usually.  Not advice, though it is on offer.  When something is a problem, start out nice.  Only if it gets sticky should you begin with applying force.  Further, targeted, limited, force is best.  Just enough to get the bolt to loosen, then back to simple efforts.  Force is too rich, expensive I mean, to spend anywhere and everywhere.  I have learned this myself, for myself, especially as health fell.

A call to check on the return of the pants I had ordered, then returned.  The colors I wanted were gone, they had been the only ones of those on sale.  I knew there might be an issue with a higher price.  I did not demand an equal price, or cause any fuss.  I let her run her program and do her things.  I could barely hear her, though I let that pass.  In time she even let me know why.  Travel, getting back from vacation, and first day back after R&R.  After all was set, I asked if the price would be the same.  Nope, but she looked a bit.  Then asked about the price.  I didn't have the info, but she found it and... reset it all to my initial price, though with a bit for the shipping label.  Done deal.

Next I called about the ducks I ordered.  For whatever reason, they didn't get the order.  Odd, but okay.  I don't want to buy this month, but next.  Their stock seems good.  I am hoping they hold until I can order.  All good, now I know.  Those things have been bugging me, like fleas, for some time.  Now I know.  The world can move so fast this time, and so slowly that.

I am going to make another attempt to call about getting a local doc.  Third time the charm?  Wouldn't bet on it.  That system, along with the whole of the V.A., is meant to time people out to death.  A third, from what I am hearing, of applicants die before their cases are even reviewed.  It isn't from lack of money, they always get even more than they ask to receive.  Then again, perhaps that is why.  Fill the union coffers and they make sure to keep costs down, one way or the other.  Business.

Later.