Lol, I’m doing exterior wood repair for a slum landlord from india, and i got my ladder leaned up against the gutter to get to the roof. The gutter (that’s hanging there by one screw and about to fall off at any moment) shifts down just a hair under the weight of the ladder, and the legs slip backward. Fell off, hit the first roof, rolled down that roof, and then hit the ground. Two falls about ten feet. In 25 years, I’ve never fallen off a ladder.
I get to the emergency with my arm cradled in my shirt like a sling… bloody shingle scraps all over me, just drove thirty minutes (almost crashed from lightheadedness). I walk in and see at least twenty black people all sitting in the waiting room playing on their phones. None appear to be in any visible distress. I say the following words to the ugly receptionist at the desk: fell off a ladder. Left arm may be broken or fractured. Need an ice pack and some tylenol ASAP. She smiles, takes my info, and says they’ll be with your shortly.
I hobble over to an available seat and sit down. Swooning from side to side in pain. I wanna see how long it takes them. After five minutes passes i return to the ugly one, now playing on her phone, and ask a fantastic question: hey, do you guys have an ice machine? She pauses for a second and then it hits her. She literally reaches into a drawer right beside her and pulls out a cold compress bag.
She had them there the whole time and could have given me one when i walked in.
Back in my seat, i wait. The nurses are informed of walk-ins and are supposed to prioritize the patients. In the next 30 minutes, three otherwise perfectly healthy looking people are called to the triage. Still i sit there. On the 45-minute mark, i walked out. Can’t sit around here all day waiting to get a tylenol and a seven minute arm x-ray.
Arm may be broken. Gonna give it a day and then return to wake med at around 2:00 in the morning when there’s not many people there so i can be seen in under an hour.
Short staffing. Capitalism.
Waiting room full of lower class black people who freak out when they get the sniffles and rush to an emergency room where they can get something for free. Capitalism. Slum landlord with a property that should be condemned. Capitalism.
Lol and the retard actually stood there and watched me load my 24 ladder onto my truck with one arm. Didn’t even offer to help. How the fuck did this imbecile even get a house? Oh… he accumulates the capital he raises exploiting indian workers and then flies over to america to exploit the american working class by becoming a slum landlord.
Dropped a whole gallon of paint during the fall, and it splattered all over the lower roof. Have to replace at least fifteen. Was totally my fault.
Top all this off with the $500 labor quote i gave him for work any other contractor would have charged double for.
Filthy cat lady cat shit collection Toxoplasmosis update. Never had the blood test (too expensive) but the pain and redness has subsided a bit. Foggy vision but not terribly bad. If it is the parasite it may have relaxed a little in there. They say people live with the parasite all the time.
Cool. I’m good with that. Most people would move elsewhere if they shared a house with a filthy piece of human trash that collected cat shit, but I’m not like most people. Those people are asking too much i think.
(You have to put all the gems i give you together and look at em. Not one at a time. Stand amazed by how compounded they all are. Follow the story, pay attention. Only then might you realize that there is no god and this world is shit. And don’t mistake this as a complaint. This is, in fact, excellent news for a certain kind of tragic hero resigned to his fate like myself)