What cheeses me off

[jastel]

Same as Roo
Usually travelling alone...Im not a drug addict so cant even use full coffee cup to save the table.
No purse or bag and not leaving my phone there...

Once my seat disappeared before I got back to it with my first cornflakes.
Most times its after the corn flakes when going for bacon or toast whatever, you get back and cornflakes bowl gone and new people sitting in your seat while you stand there with a plate of bacon and nowhere to sit.

I deliberately make a bit of a mess at places like this to discourage seat theft.

 

[Scarlett]

Maybe I should start carrying a small cheap foldable hat around and leave that on my table to indicate ‘not finished’.

But then how to avoid it being taken? Brightly coloured? Have Rick Astley motif on it? Hmm, decisions, decisions?

 

[Larko1]

Maybe I should start carrying a small cheap foldable hat around and leave that on my table to indicate ‘not finished’.

But then how to avoid it being taken? Brightly coloured? Have Rick Astley motif on it? Hmm, decisions, decisions?

 

[Hvr]

I carry a free magazine and leave it open on the table with a cup of water beside it and some napkins. If the worst happens it doesn't matter if it's taken.

 

[anat0l]

WCMO...

"As you take your seat, please place your larger bag in the overhead bin and then turn it around to occupy less space."

We're on an aircraft where the largest regulation carry on, which most have, doesn't fit in the locker with the short side facing out (it can go in, but the locker door won't close). I suspect most people and crew know this already, so this is a dumb announcement.

 

[mrsterryn]

Flipping trying to reset security questions I made up about 15 years ago on apple. After half an hour I managed to reset the password but it keeps on wanting those stupid questions .

 

[serfty]

Same as Roo
Usually travelling alone...Im not a drug addict so cant even use full coffee cup to save the table.
No purse or bag and not leaving my phone there...

Once my seat disappeared before I got back to it with my first cornflakes.
Most times its after the corn flakes when going for bacon or toast whatever, you get back and cornflakes bowl gone and new people sitting in your seat while you stand there with a plate of bacon and nowhere to sit.

I deliberately make a bit of a mess at places like this to discourage seat theft.

Spiral notebook open and pen on top left at table.

 

[blackcat20]

I usually leave a child at the table while I refill, I've found no one wants to sit with them

 

[VPS]

Doctors surgeries charging to send your medical history to another clinic

 

[jastel]

I usually leave a child at the table while I refill, I've found no one wants to sit with them

Thats a bit extreme getting a kid just to save a seat....think I will skip breakfast...LOL

 

[drron]

WCMO at the moment are Portugese flies. Worse than their Australian cousins.

 

[blackcat20]

Left the table briefly to get Master TC some food and came back to everything gone including fresh pot of tea and my personal belongings that I'd left on the table

 

[anat0l]

Left the table briefly to get Master TC some food and came back to everything gone including fresh pot of tea and my personal belongings that I'd left on the table

Why would they take it away if Master TC was there?

If your personal belongings also went, did you get them back easily?

 

[blackcat20]

Why would they take it away if Master TC was there?

If your personal belongings also went, did you get them back easily?

He wasn't, he came with me to grab food. I collected my belongings from the desk at the restaurant

 

[mrsterryn]

Doctors surgeries charging to send your medical history to another clinic

I have had to change surgeries twice in the last 25 years or so and from memory both charged about $30 or $40 . Nowadays the bulk of husband's medical details are through the Health Government portal which I think makes it easier

 

[JohnM]

Doctors surgeries charging to send your medical history to another clinic

PJM has just been stung $33 for exactly that.

 

[anat0l]

Doctors surgeries charging to send your medical history to another clinic

So they charge you for something that the other surgery needs but they can hold onto just to make some more money.

Yes I get someone has to be paid for the time to collect those records and do the sending. It probably costs $30 to do so, but wow.

Next, they'll charge you $30 to pass on and add any correspondence from hospitals to your file, or to make a referral to a specialist. Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised, because GPs have been claiming that clinical costs (viz. usually bulk billing ones) have not kept up with the present for ages, i.e. we really should be paying much more to see the doctor.

 

[prozac]

So they charge you for something that the other surgery needs but they can hold onto just to make some more money.

Yes I get someone has to be paid for the time to collect those records and do the sending. It probably costs $30 to do so, but wow.

Next, they'll charge you $30 to pass on and add any correspondence from hospitals to your file, or to make a referral to a specialist. Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised, because GPs have been claiming that clinical costs (viz. usually bulk billing ones) have not kept up with the present for ages, i.e. we really should be paying much more to see the doctor.

At the surgery last week we signed some Medicare docs to allow tele-health consults to remain bulk-billed.

 

[RooFlyer]

So they charge you for something that the other surgery needs but they can hold onto just to make some more money.

Yes I get someone has to be paid for the time to collect those records and do the sending. It probably costs $30 to do so, but wow.

The record is the property of the originating surgery and has 'value' to both parties, accumulated over the time the patient attended there. It would be nice if they gave them over, but not surprising there is a fee. Now, with electronic records, the originating surgery probably argues that they are including the amortising the cost of the electronic system.

My GP has left his surgery and setting up on his own later in the year. I've signed something to say they may contact me then, to facilitate my records being copied over. Not moved, as I may still attend the other place from time to time if my guy isn't available.

Will see how much it costs!

 

[drron]

European airports full of people with no spatial awareness.