A few weeks ago I dropped my dear old Nan off to an optometrist appointment. She needed a lift because they were diluting her pupils or something awful like that and couldn’t drive afterwards. So we agreed i’d go and get a few jobs done and she would text me when she was ready*
Almost an hour and a half later I hadn’t heard from her. It was getting close to six, so I thought i’d go back to the optometrist and wait for her. However when I got there, they were closed so I knocked on the door and waited. The receptionist came out and told me they had no patients left everyone had gone.
So I immediately got on my mobile and tried to call her, but it went straight to voice mail. I hummed and haahed and alternated between calling her mobile and home phone for about 5 minutes, debating whether to wait for her, or see if for some reason she had gone home. I was worried, it was getting dark and my Nan is pretty cute, you never know who might take her home.
Finally I called Mum, to see what she thought I should do. Her advice was to stay put and see what happens. 30 seconds after chatting to Mum, the receptionist has come running out the front door, and started looking in cars parked down the street. When I get out of my car she runs over to me. She tells me that Nan is inside, and that she won’t be long.
Half an hour later, my dear Nan appears on the arm of the optometrist. Turns out they’d put her in the back waiting room and forgotten about her…for over an hour! It wasn’t until the cleaner walked in and found her that the mistake had been realised.
*Someone at work pointed out to me that if she couldn’t see to drive would she have been able to see to text me?
i’m guessing she wldn’t have been able to text, and honestly who could forget ur nan!