Some rules of the game
Today, our activity involves a sort of parlour game. Or a kitchen and living room, if your home is so equipped.
Let’ begin with the player, who will need to cover their eyes. I suggest ill-fitting sunglasses, with a pair of socks as eye cushions. You can’t see (much)? Good. That’s the point. This level of precision is not available for sale, anywhere. Now, you’ll need several small pads of paper. Different sizes. And a couple of ball-point pens that might still have ink. Realistic, when you hear the phone ring, and need to take notes.
That’s our goal. You are going to record the salient details of a phone conversation. Directions given by an unknown caller, and it will contain a mixture of times, dates, colours, addresses in another city and soome directives about your documentation and fasting. Are we ready? Ring.Ring. (pick it up before the third time, when the answering service will kick in).
This can happen. It did, to me. I now have a series of paoers, writ large, with words like RED BLUE TWO MONDAY DR N???
Go ahead. Try to explain the content to someone else, including the doctor’s name. I am expected to be at an unfamiliar hospital, next week. I can imagine how the receptionist will handle things, given the professional aplomb required for that profession.
I am shortlisted for surgery. I should be more worried than I am, but this is beyond my control. I’ll see how it plays out (I hope), because in a worst case, I won’t see. Roll the dice.
