Today, I will start by going back in time. It’s June 14 and we’re out of the house before noon. The main reason that Patti and I are walking around outside in the morning was because Patti wanted to go out to breakfast for our anniversary. Before we did that, I needed to go to the lab to do testing. I was fasting since the night before, so I was ready. For some reason, I thought fasting was to leave a urine sample. I was drinking water and not going to the restroom so I could give them a proper sample. It was just past noon when we sat to wait in the lab waiting area. There were so many people there, we had to sit about twenty feet from the board that told you who was next. It also told you how long the wait would be. The first time said 15-30 minutes.
When we first sat down, I had to turn my neck to see the board with all the names and wait times. I was thinking I should have brought the water I had in the car into the waiting area. Knowing I had plenty of time, I told Patti I would go out to the car and get it. I walked to the car to get the water and thought about turning my car around. When I parked, I parked away from where the sun usually shines down. What I forgot was this was not the usual time for being at the doctor’s office. It was about noon. No matter how I parked the car, the sun would be shining straight down. Other cars occupied the few shady spots. I grabbed my water and was walking away when I realized my water bottle was almost empty. I emptied the water bottle and put it back in the car.
Back in the waiting room, I saw that the time had gone down to 10-15 minutes. Instead of sitting back down by Patti, I sat in seats that were now open that faced the board. I told Patti about my brilliant seat change, but she wanted to stay where she was. The key problem with her staying next to my old seat was she was now on my bad ear side. She told me something, and I said I couldn’t hear her. She got up and walked away. I assumed she told me where she was going, but I couldn’t hear her so … Eventually, my name appeared with a testing station letter. Mine was “A.” Patti appeared out of nowhere and told me I was being called. It was then that I noticed she had coffee in her hand. I solved the mystery of where she went.
I sat in a chair in front of a nurse and Patti stood next to me. I expected a cup, but I was surprised to see the nurse preparing to take my blood. Honestly, getting blood taken was less daunting than supplying a sample of urine. I must provide regular urine samples for work and some places we went to in the past did not make that easy for me. One time many years ago, they forced me to go in a restroom where I could hear the man waiting for the sample right outside the door. He made it worse by telling me I had to produce the sample within a certain time. Luckily, my work doesn’t use that place anymore for drug testing. The woman who took my blood was so good, I didn’t even know the needle was in me.
After they drew blood, I had to go to the restroom. I told Patti about thinking I needed a urine sample, and she just shook her head. She’s used to me not understanding basic things. We headed to breakfast, and I was ready because I didn’t have my usual breakfast. This breakfast would be about 12:30 pm. Believe it or don’t, that’s early for a non-workday. I had coffee, an egg white veggie omelet, and a carrot and raisin muffin. The tomatoes on my omelet were the closest things to my regular breakfast. My day of debauchery was under way.
We went back home after breakfast and finally exchanged gifts. For some time now, Patti has been searching for her wireless over ear headphones. She had them before our vacation and during the vacation but couldn’t find them when we got home. She looked everywhere and had me look everywhere for them with no headphones to show for it. I got her new headphones when I could see she would not find them. Every time she asked me to look again for them, I just wanted to tell her to wait until June 14. That might have been too obvious. She finally saw that she didn’t have to worry about the old pair of headphones. I also gave her a bag of dark chocolate, but she already knew about them because the Amazon lady blabbed about them to her. I forgot to mark them as gifts.
After a few hours of watching our newest obsession on YouTube, we went to our dinner destination. Our newest obsession on YouTube is watching Richard Ayoade on his various BBC shows. We fell in love with him from The IT Crowd and like him even more when he’s himself. Patti still doesn’t know how to pronounce his last name. I know because I listened to several of his audiobooks. For dinner, we went to Super Sushi in Redlands. Breakfast was Patti’s pick, and this was mine. After stuffing ourselves with sushi, we still had half the sushi left. We took it home. It was the perfect end to the perfect night of Anniversaring.
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