One of my daughters had an orthodontist's appointment yesterday.
That was also necessary.
Her brace worked a little too well. One tooth was sinking downwards and another started to go crooked. Not quite the intention.
Fortunately, the orthodontist agreed to make an appointment.
Odd. The front door is locked.
I'm ringing the bell for the second time.
A key is turned and I see a bottle of hand sanitiser. Behind it, a kind of moon man appears.
The orthodontist is unrecognisably kitted out. She's wearing a mask, and otherwise she's in protective gear.
We need to disinfect our hands, and my daughter can come to the treatment room.
Well, they're not taking any risks here, I don't think.
I'm reassuring myself: I definitely won't catch corona here.
The treatment is taking quite a long time.
Naturally, there are no magazines in the waiting room. Makes sense: you never know whose grubby fingers have been flicking through them.
I'm working through my emails, and ploughing through large chunks of my Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn timeline. Then just a game.
Happy. I can hear the old matrix printer chugging away.
My invoice must be on its way.
And there it is, the man in the moon turning up with an invoice.
Whether I want to pay that in cash.
Huh? I'm saying I haven't used cash for weeks.
There's a cash machine across the street, says the orthodontist.
No. Should I go in there? To get some cash out of that grubby ATM with my bare hands?
Odd. On the one hand, you put yourself in a spacesuit, but on the other, you ask if the patient wants to pay in cash. With those dirty notes that you really don't know who's been touching them with their unwashed hands.
Do you ever get the feeling that things aren't quite right?
A company says one thing, but does another.
Example.
At the start of the coronavirus crisis, I found it difficult to digest all the news about corona. One virologist was even more of a virologist than the other.
But the most allergic reactions I got were from adverts. Companies all having the same kind of videos made, with the same tinkly piano music, the same imagery, the same buzzwords. And the same message: ‘We're here for you. Even at this time.
There's a nice video about this on YouTube.
That simply cannot be right.
Companies should be different. How can you CHOOSE a company otherwise if they all say the same thing?
Therefore: thank you for choosing Adrem Limburg!
If we can help you again with a car in the Heerlen region, delivery van, minibus or passenger bus, Can you choose one here.
