In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:54:32 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

On 10/1/2015 5:20 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:29:14 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

In my "medical test" example, they were unprepared to perform the
test at *any* price! "Sorry, but we can't do that test, here..."

My laughing was about everytiing but that you went home with nothing.

If I had only "invested" a couple of phone calls and the time to
drive to the facility, it would have been "merely annoying". But,
given that I had already been inconvenienced by having to prepare
for the test I was nowhere near as "accommodating" of their
idiocy.

Yeah. I don't know what preparation you did but I once had to drink a
gallon - literally a gallon -- of something to flush out my insides. It
was one of the few times I missed having a wife, who I figured might
pour it down my throat. But left alone, I couldn't do it. I think I
drank between 2 and 3 quarts. The guy the next day didn't complain.

Colonoscopy

Exactly.

usually requires that sort of prep -- make sure you're
squeaky clean inside! Drinking it isn't terrible -- it's the
*consequences* of drinking it that are... "unfortunate".

The consequences I didn't mind, but trying to drink it all was very
unpleasant. I didn't allow enough time either, because I had to go to
sleep. Torn between drinking and sleeping.