RustedFox Rants: OK BOOMER: Part 2.

[RustedFox]

Awhile back on here I posted a short essay entitled "How to be an Awful Snowbird", I think it was titled "RustedFox Rants: Snowbirds".

In that essay, I railed against snowbirds who park in the fire lane because "they only need a few things and will be right out."
I hope that every senior who does this has their car hit by a truck, or something else of considerable size (big rock, bulldozer, etc.)

I went to my local grocery store this AM, and Barbara was there, sitting in her giant SUV, in the fire lane, probably calculating her next insulin dose, breathing sugar... somehow.

I walked up to her window. It wasn't hard; seeing as how she parked as close to the front door as she could.

"Excuse me, ma'am?"

Barbara rolled down her window a few inches.

"Whaddayouwant?" - she cackled at me.

I was nice. "Just looking out for you; my cousin got a $250 dollar ticket last week for doing what you're doing; parking in the fire lane."
That was a lie. I don't have a cousin; but I could have been mean about it and said: "Hey; fat old b!tch, you're in the fire lane, now move your ass."

"Well, I have money, so they can ticket me."

Seriously. That was her response.
Zero acknowledgment of "What I'm doing is wrong."
She might as well have said: "Rules are for poor people."

I actually said (yep, I said it again):

Wow.
OK, BOOMER!
You are what is wrong with America.
And the veteran in aisle 4 having chest pain hates you, too.

I walked inside and went on with my shopping. My eyes caught a split-second of a Yankees decal on the back of the other side of her vehicle.
Noo Yawwwwwk.

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[Birdstrike]

Awhile back on here I posted a short essay entitled "How to be an Awful Snowbird", I think it was titled "RustedFox Rants: Snowbirds".

In that essay, I railed against snowbirds who park in the fire lane because "they only need a few things and will be right out."
I hope that every senior who does this has their car hit by a truck, or something else of considerable size (big rock, bulldozer, etc.)

I went to my local grocery store this AM, and Barbara was there, sitting in her giant SUV, in the fire lane, probably calculating her next insulin dose, breathing sugar... somehow.

I walked up to her window. It wasn't hard; seeing as how she parked as close to the front door as she could.

"Excuse me, ma'am?"

Barbara rolled down her window a few inches.

"Whaddayouwant?" - she cackled at me.

I was nice. "Just looking out for you; my cousin got a $250 dollar ticket last week for doing what you're doing; parking in the fire lane."
That was a lie. I don't have a cousin; but I could have been mean about it and said: "Hey; fat old b!tch, you're in the fire lane, now move your ass."

"Well, I have money, so they can ticket me."

Seriously. That was her response.
Zero acknowledgment of "What I'm doing is wrong."
She might as well have said: "Rules are for poor people."

I actually said (yep, I said it again):

Wow.
OK, BOOMER!
You are what is wrong with America.
And the veteran in aisle 4 having chest pain hates you, too.

I walked inside and went on with my shopping. My eyes caught a split-second of a Yankees decal on the back of the other side of her vehicle.
Noo Yawwwwwk.

YOU, are on a roll.
I can't wait for Chapter 3, where she asymptomatically walks into your ED for, "Wants checked for COVID + work note," and you're her doc.

 

[RustedFox]

YOU, are on a roll.
I can't wait for Chapter 3, where she asymptomatically walks into your ED for, "Wants checked for COVID + work note," and you're her doc.

I gotta get out of Florida, amigo.

 

[GeneralVeers]

I gotta get out of Florida, amigo.

Hazardous to your health to live there! At least here we don't cater to the New Yorkers, and the nurses are openly hostile to them. The great thing is with Casinos closed indefinitely, I doubt they will ever come back.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

I gotta get out of Florida, amigo.

Come to SC, we're hiring. @Dr.McNinja has worked for my hospital before and could tell you if the ED is a decent place.

 

[bravotwozero]

Not sure if you'll escape the snowbirds there.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Not sure if you'll escape the snowbirds there.

We don't have the traditional type. Ours have fully retired here, very few go back and forth.

 

[ShockIndex]

My in-laws live in Greenville and it’s on my shortlist after fellowship if I want to go back into academics without the research component of a major university system. Charleston is also on that list. Both are becoming relatively expensive and congested for the South but lifestyle is still pretty good.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

My in-laws live in Greenville and it’s on my shortlist after fellowship if I want to go back into academics without the research component of a major university system. Charleston is also on that list. Both are becoming relatively expensive and congested for the South but lifestyle is still pretty good.

I don't love Prisma, but it is a good community academic place. Charleston is much more the stereotypical academic hospital.

Greenville can be livable if you live outside city limits - Simpsonville, Greer, those type areas.

 

[ShockIndex]

I don't love Prisma, but it is a good community academic place. Charleston is much more the stereotypical academic hospital.

Greenville can be livable if you live outside city limits - Simpsonville, Greer, those type areas.

My in-laws live in Greer. My wife is a Yellow Jacket turned Gamecock and knows the Greer FB coach who is struggling with CA (they were a couple years apart).

 

[ShockIndex]

If you like to run, Swamp Rabbit Trail in Greenville is pretty damn hard to beat. I can imagine biking could be tough due to pedestrians, but distance running is the bomb. The bars along the way like El Thrifty can make those runs interesting...

 

[RustedFox]

I like this talk about places to enjoy life.

Open question to the forum:
"Convince me to come live and work in your city/locale."

Go.

 

[MediCane2006]

I gotta get out of Florida, amigo.

Or come to the part of Florida where we don’t have snowbirds!
(Full disclosure though, it’s the part of Florida that breeds Florida Man).

 

[bravotwozero]

I like this talk about places to enjoy life.

Open question to the forum:
"Convince me to come live and work in your city/locale."

Go.

Nope.

My state’s got enough schmucks looking for EP gigs as it is...


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