As those close to me know, I recently underwent a “Left Big Toe Nail Avulsion”, to alleviate the pain of an Onychocryptosis, or Unguis incarnatus. This was what was written in that weird language those doctors and nurses use so that patients will find difficulty in understanding them. Luckily, I like reading up on these things, and I realise this simply meant that I would be undergoing surgery on my left big toe to remove the nail because of an ingrown toenail.
Anyway, this happened two weeks ago, and today I had to go back there for a checkup. I thought there would be a proper analysis of the toe, and maybe a written report on how the toe was doing. Instead, they led me to a room, with a thousand people inside, sat me on a bed, and examined my toe for about a minute, said there was nothing wrong with it, sent me back out and asked me to wait at the reception area. After half an hour, they called me and asked me to pay twenty-two dollars. For what?! Twenty-two dollars for a “Professional” to unwrap my gauze? No wonder these doctors earn so much while we peasants are suffering. These thieves are sucking us dry.
When they were done robbing me, I took a walk to the nearby Popular, and discovered a weird thing. In the picture above, ignore the games. Look at the three black cable ties. They are linked together, holding three USB Card readers together. At first, they were just hanging on some rack. I wanted to buy one, and all three of them came off. I suppose the cable ties are there to…… I don’t know, irritate people? Maybe they are there to prevent people from stealing the object. If so, that’s the dumbest security device in the world. It’s the same as locking a few bikes together so that people won’t steal it. If someone wanted to steal it, they would steal just one. Now, they are forced to steal all of it, since they are all linked together. How, then, does this help the company? So, in light of their dumbness, I decided not to buy the thing from them. The fact that I couldn’t find any “Friendly Popular Customer Service People” might also have something to do with me not buying. I wasn’t going to bring all three to the cashier, where some Chinese speaking old woman will not be able to understand that I only want to buy one, not three.
Lesson 1 : Hospitals are thieves.
Lesson 2 : Popular sucks when it comes to “Security”.
Lesson 3 : Get English speaking Cashiers.