Another Day in Paradise

Horses trained like little monsters; the ones that were training. The filly went to Chill Out Corner; the Sandring because she's ready to explode and the little Mare who ran 3rd the other day; had to get walked with the chain in her mouth 'cause she's also ready to cause damage. She's bloody full of herself. A blue, cloudless, beautiful morning with a light wind. Tried to get to Silver Duck to see how the newly released pigeon is doing but got caught by a huge block of traffic on Steeles and a train on Hwy 7 as I tried to divert. Gave up and headed back towards the clinic. Phoned Tim later and he told me he observed the pigeon hanging with a group outside his barn; on the edges but nevertheless there. He insisted that he was there. No carcasses observed on the grass so maybe the little pigeon will have a chance. At the clinic Len tells me a client complained. A client came in on Saturday with maybe 2 animals and his son. There may have been another person there but I can't remember because I remember it was hot in the room and busy with a lot of talking and activity. I was telling jokes, I was tired, I wanted to get on and over with the morning. They told me the dog had a Parotid Duct Transposition surgery at a Referral clinic and I expressed surprise and admiration and asked jokingly "What do you do for a living?" And the client answered that he was a mechanic. I said it was amazing to me and admirable that he had gone to that extent to help his dog. Later he tells me his son wants to be a Vet. So jokingly I said if he was smart enough to get INTO vet school he should go directly to Law School. Well apparently later on they complained that I was unprofessional. This came from the wife who had been sitting outside listening on the other side of a closed door in the front office. I saw her when they left sitting out there dourly and wondered why she hadn't come in. They also asked for some specialty eye meds that they had apparently ordered before; I ran around looking for meds that weren't even there; meds they had never really ordered. he had lied. He said he phoned in at the beginning of the week. Then I see in the computer that Sarah had put a comment in their file that they are always late and sometimes don't show for appointments. Unprofessional? I say they need to get their noses out of their asses and live a little. Methinks they take themselves a little too seriously.