The Switch

Sometimes when I drive in a car for 10 hours, I switch over from good mood to bad mood right around hour 9.

Because I'm currently in a bad mood, I've decided to share a peeve.  One of my major peeves right now is doctors and their laptops.  Remember when you used to go to the doctor and they sat there and talked to you for a little bit? Sometimes they looked over the chart, but mostly it was talking, with actual eye contact.  If you're young, you probably don't remember these glorious days of yore, but people that are 53 like me can remember them clearly because they are in stark contrast to what happens these days which I will now illustrate with a case in point. I accompanied my mom to the doctor this week.  After sitting and chatting together in the exam room for 20 minutes we were joined by the doctor.  He sat down, opened his laptop and started typing stuff.  We sat there watching him type for a really long time.  Then he asked my mom some questions, eyes never leaving the screen.  How's your appetite?  typetypetype Do you have headaches?  typetypetype   Does your stomach ever hurt?  typetypetype
 Come on buddy, work on the bedside laptop manner.  I just got so annoyed.  Finally he came over and flashed some lights in my mom's eyes and listened to her heart.  Then he left the room never to return. The whole thing puts me in a bad mood every time I think about it.  This guy seemed to make it his personal mission in life to tick me off.  If I go back to this doctor with my mom in the future, I'm going to ask him if I can record him with my smart phone so I can share examples of poor doctoring skills with blog readers. This is one of the worst peeves of all time.