Pay cash with your spacesuit

One of my daughters had an appointment with the orthodontist yesterday.

That was also necessary.

Her braces were working a little too well. One tooth was sinking down and another was starting to grow crooked. Not quite what I wanted.

Fortunately, the orthodontist was willing to make an appointment.

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Strange. The front door is locked.

I ring the bell for the second time.

A key is turned and I see a bottle of hand gel. Behind it appears a kind of moon man.

The orthodontist is wrapped up unrecognizably. She has a mask on, and otherwise she is in a protective suit.

We have to disinfect our hands, and my daughter can come with me to the treatment room.

Well, they're not taking any chances here, I guess.

I reassure myself: I certainly won't catch corona here.

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The treatment takes quite a long time.

Of course there are no magazines in the waiting room. Logically: you never know who has been leafing through them with their dirty fingers.

I work through my mail, and plow through large chunks of Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn timeline. Then another game.

Thank goodness. I can hear the old dot matrix printer going.

My bill will probably arrive there.

And lo and behold, there comes the moon man with an invoice.

Whether I want to pay for it in cash.

Huh? I tell them I haven’t used cash for weeks.

There's an ATM across the street, says the orthodontist.

Nah. Should I go in there? With my hands, get some money from that dirty ATM?

Strange. On the one hand, hoist yourself into a space suit, but ask the patient to pay in cash. With those dirty flaps that you really don't know who has touched with their unwashed paws.

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Do you ever have the feeling that things aren't right?

A company says one thing, but does something else.

Example.

At the beginning of the corona crisis I could hardly digest all the news about corona. One virologist was even more virologist than the other.

But the most allergic reactions I got from commercials. Companies that all made the same videos, with the same piano music, the same images, the same buzzwords. And the same message: 'We are here for you. Even in these times.´

There is a nice video about this on YouTube.  

That just can't be right.

Companies should be different. How else can you CHOOSE a company 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, van or passenger bus, you can choose one here.