The day started with three loads of wash in the morning: sheets, whites, and colors. After that, I tackled the homeowners insurance problem.. Copied what I had to sign and walked to post office to send it registered mail. Stopped on the way at Hallmark to get granddaughter Vivian a birthday card--she'll be twenty on July 29. Although I like to give actual gifts, I didn't want t add to her luggage, so just put some dough in it. She's interning at Cornell and will be back in Singapore after, then back for her junior college year in Hawaii.
Bused from there to the WinCo shopping center, but first went to Dollar Tree for a few items I haven't been able to find, including those little items to repair eye glasses. My scale battery is dead and I didn't have anything to fit in the tiny screw to open the compartment. Also, needed large paper clips, which I hadn't been able to find. Happily, I got both at Dollar Tree.
After, I ate my packed lunch on the only bench I know of in that shopping center. It's next to the movie theatre and, annoyingly, is in full sun. However, I was hungry, so ate there anyway. Went from there across the street to Office Depot for black printer ink. When I got home, I realized I had gotten the wrong one, dammit. I'll ask Vickie to take me back to exchange it today after we go to Cliff House for brunch.
Boiling Blood Department
Yesterday, I received a letter from Dermatology Medical Group that made my blood--yes, boil. In May, I had had a skin cancer spot on my nose sprayed, which took Dr. S. about six seconds. Yesterday, I got a co-pay bill of a paltry ten bucks, but it was what was added fee that incensed me--a 3 percent "convenience fee" for paying on-line! I know, I know, it's miniscule, but it infuriates me. Is there no end to the lengths business will go to get the last possible penny out of the consumer? It's similar to Conservice charging me five dollars a month to prepare my bill! As for Dermatology Medical Group, I'm going to send them a check, along with this letter:
--It is absolutely incredible to me that you charge a three percent "convenience fee" for paying on-line. You do this for a lousy thirty cents? Wow, the medical profession--oh, no, let's call it what it is--the corporate enterprise has changed since I was a kid.
So here's my ten dollar co-pay in a check. I pay virtually all bills on-line and I guess thirty cents won't put me on the street, but as the saying goes, it's the principal of the thing.
Sincerely And With Disgust, Rosemary Molloy--
AAGH!!!!
2 comments:
I, too, pay all my bills online. I haven’t yet seen a ‘convenience fee’. I guess it’s coming. Bigger question is why he’d burn off a skin cancer. How’d he know it was CA? Maybe is was a pre cancer. Not that it matters how you were charged. Glad you wrote the letter. The MD will probably never see your letter. It’ll be interesting to see if the office manager or whoever is in charge replies.
Pat, I just saw this on Monday, August fifth--still haven't discovered how to put my current email in. I think I used the wrong word, as the doc (actually, she's a woman) didn't "burn off" the spots, she sprayed them and yes, I guess they were pre-cancerous. I forgot all that stuff I learned in medical school!
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