Card Declined...Re-Insert????

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Card declined reinsert. What does that mean?

It's one more thing.

I'm trying to get it. One more thing.

Oh, I actually is so amused by this old couple at the urgent carrier.

Yesterday I took notes.

Oh, great.

So this will be a decent lead in to it.

This was a montage of annoying things people do in public.

Oh, I see that there's a car behind me in this parking lot.

I'm just going to keep walking right in the middle of the driving area.

Oops, I'm in the dentist waiting room and I'm getting a phone call.

Better put this one on speaker phone.

Oh, it's my turn to order after spending over 20 minutes in line.

Gosh, I have no idea.

I'd better start the decision making process right now.

Hey, kids, why don't you run around and scream and climb all over the chairs while I wrap up this 45-minute phone call with your uncle Rich.

Okay, guys, let's group up for a photo right in the middle of this walkway.

Excuse me. Do you have any cold stinky meaty sandwiches I can bring off my crowded flight?

The waiting in line for a long time to get up to the register and then people start their decision making.

It's always hilarious.

Yeah, a beating.

Yeah, as I don't know, I think it's hilarious.

But a couple of times I've been sitting at airline gates and that's pretty close quarters with somebody carrying on a long, loud conversation on the speaker phone.

Yeah.

And everybody is just glaring at them and looking at each other like somebody going to say something or you just want to slap her.

Well, it's not only annoying. I think it's so amazing to most of us who just...

I would be so uncomfortable having a conversation out in front of other people.

Yeah.

I couldn't do it. Even if it's not about anything personal, it's just so personal by definition.

Yeah.

To be sharing this with everyone is just weird.

Makes me wonder what personality trait that is.

I know. I know.

As I've always said, I'd love to know what all personality traits fit together, like that one with whatever they're things.

Anyway, so yes they study them at the university level.

Is it obliviousness or ego mania?

Oh, what?

I don't know.

Anyway, I met urgent carrier yesterday and got lucky.

Henry had the physical problem and needed to go to urgent care and luckily it wasn't very crowded.

So we're sitting there in a mostly empty room.

And I hear the door open around the corner and some banging.

And I hear, damn it, I hit my knee.

And then a woman's voice, well watch out.

Why did they make the door so heavy?

So I could hear that around the corner.

Wow.

And then they come through and it's two people in their 100s.

It's a guy pushing a woman in a wheelchair.

I never did figure out if it was a husband wife.

I think it was a mother's son.

But they were both so old.

They were just in that category of ancient.

But I think it was a mother and son and he was pushing her.

And they go slowly and loudly up to the desk.

And everybody is watching them because they just never stopped talking and it was constantly really loud.

They couldn't hear each other.

That was part of it.

They couldn't hear each other so they had to talk really loud to be able to hear each other.

And they got up there and they asked him questions and stuff like that.

And they went back to their seat with the clipboard.

And she's sitting there.

He's texting on his phone.

Click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

Oh, had the clicks on.

He had the clicks on.

But because he's deaf, I think he probably doesn't know he has the clicks on.

Oh boy.

Click, click, click, click as he's texting.

And she's filling out the clipboard.

And like everything is a question for her.

They want to know if I should, he'd say, how do I know?

They want to have a question like that.

And then she finally gets the clipboard filled out and she hands it to him.

What am I supposed to do with it?

Well, I don't know.

What am I supposed to do with it?

We'll take it up there when we go up there.

And so they take it up there and he pushes her up to the desk.

And he said, don't give it to me.

And they go up to the desk and they're talking up there.

But and he says really loud.

Do you want my co-pay?

I know how worried you people are about getting paid all the time.

Oh wow.

See, I really like to chin up some animosity before I see a medical professional.

I like to make sure they know.

I don't like you.

You don't like me.

All right.

Now let's deal with my health.

And the nice young woman working there said, we are worried about getting paid.

But we'll let you know about that in just a little bit.

We have to type this and everything so you can go back and sit down.

They head back to sit down and she said, so you think it's infected.

That's what Henry and I were actually we had our heads down at that point.

And we're trying not to be obviously laughing because we're both our shoulders are shaking.

Because she screamed, so do you think it's infected?

And she said, it's all red and runny.

And he said, I know it's infected.

That's why we're here.

Well, that's, you know, simple truth there.

So then, and that's why I wanted to play the thing from earlier about things annoying people do in public.

She says to him, what time does the Easter buffet?

And do you think we're going to get to Linda's on time?

She says, I don't know, caller.

So she gets out her phone and dials up Linda on the speaker phone.

Oh boy.

And they have a long conversation really loud.

What time's the buffet end, Linda?

I'm an urgent care.

Yeah, it's all runny and red.

I think it's infected.

Whatever it is, it ain't good.

And I don't want to know.

Oh my god.

So they have this loud conversation about the, again, it's just,

who are you that wants to, that doesn't hold it up to your ear?

And that personality trait to me, I'm a very private guy.

So it's just so weird to me.

Right, right.

I know my wife is much more willing to speak in tones that can be heard about what's happening,

whether in that moment or in our world, in that kind of sharing is good way that I'm the opposite.

Even if I want to know what time it is, I'm going to ask you why it is.

Exactly.

And I always like these people and they're having these conversations really loud.

Sometimes they are, it's people that are completely aware that you're listening in

and they kind of give you the raise your eyebrows like, how about that or whatever.

Yeah, so you realize that if your conversation is loud enough for me to hear and participate in,

I can't do anything else.

You're aware of that, right?

You not jobs?

Anyway, the end of it before we got called in, I really like,

they get called up for the, they get called up for the copay and he's up there.

And then all of a sudden I hear him yell and this is when I went,

left really loud and everybody started laughing.

He said, I wrote it down.

Card declined.

What does that mean?

Card declined, declined reinsert.

What does that mean?

It means exactly what it said.

Card declined reinsert.

Oh my.

I wonder how that whole thing ended.

We got called in.

I have no idea how long it lasted.

I hope she got her red, runny infected something or other.

Look that.

Taking care of.

Can you imagine what life is like at their home?

Are there other people there that have to like live this their entire lives?

Can you imagine them driving together?

The vaccine driving.

Oh, but the fact that that some people's comfort zone is what really amazes me.

So that if they lived a more like my relationship with my wife reality where like

they're almost never ever voices raised how freaked out they would be by that.

Were they just loud or were they old and deaf?

They were old and deaf.

Okay.

But my parents are somewhat old and deaf.

They don't yell everything.

Yeah.

They have to ask to repeat stuff sometimes or ever.

I don't know.

I would honest to God would love to be able to follow them around and see what is your life like?

What does your house look like?

How do you support yourselves?

I mean they struggled with lots of stuff and that part of that's just age I guess.

Card decline.

Rand sorry.

But I mean is everything like that every trip to the grocery store?

I mean how do you how do you have a driver's license?

How do you pay your taxes?

How do you do anything?

Yeah.

You know I will.

My study is going to eliminate the elderly factor.

I just I want to know about like the prime of life person who has that loud speaker conversation

in public where every like the dentist off his thing example.

Because I really I don't know what combination of obliviousness or egomania it is.

I really can't even guess.

I think it would be helpful to us to understand you know our culture and our politics and everything

like that to more clearly nail that down.

What is going on with the I walk in the middle of the parking garage.

Cars wondering how to get around me.

I have loud speaker phone conversations just all these different things that kind of fit together

I think I bring smelly food on a plane.

Right.

Right.

I wonder seriously if it is one of those psychological blind spots that you can have if you're either

I mean because autism is barely understood at this point we're just scratching the surface

but I know multiple people who are almost certainly or definitely on the spectrum who have autistic kids as well.

And I wonder if like the gal I'm picturing with her loud gd conversation.

Right as all of us are like what the hell is she like can't perceive how out of bounds that is.

Is it not like a personality flaw at all.

It's just a lack of awareness of blind spot that I can't imagine being you know as private as private can be usually.

I don't know.

If you know please text us or email us.

Yes Katie.

It's bringing up all of these things or making me think of moments where I've just been like jumping out of my skin lately.

And the latest one I was was at the doctor's office way you know that that that nasally noise when you're like it's like the snort when they're like trying to.

This is so gross when you're like trying to suck snot back up into your nose.

Oh boy you know I'm talking about it's not it's not like a simple but it's like that it's a little whistling.

Oh my god this woman was sitting our chairs were our chairs were back to back.

Oh boy.

I don't know she was sitting there for maybe 10 minutes in the waiting room.

I got up and moved.

Every breath.

I couldn't and every time she did it drew laughed because drew new I was about to like.

Oh yeah.

Explode.

Welcome to my misophonial nightmare.

Oh my god.

I know.

I've sat in situations like before where I'm so close to explain.

But you're fucking.

Yes.

Yes that was it.

Oh my god.

Oh and I'm like sit there and I looked at you.

My blood pressure is going to be so fucking fine during this.

Oh I thought I was going to lose it.

But they will you in there and you're like 200 over 107.

What is it?

What is it?

What happened?

The snotty woman in the waiting room.

But it's like shit it was very loud.

And it was just repetitive and it's like it had I done that when I was a kid.

My mom would have knocked my head off.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

I will give you $20 right now to blow your nose.

Oh my god.

I thought I was going to blow it.

I'll hold the tissue like you're a little kid.

Explode.

Explode.

And I'm going to get you to stop doing that.

Please.

Don't decline.

Reinsert.

What is that name?

Goodness.

You know if your conversation is loud enough for me to hear,

it's loud enough for me to participate in.

That's what you should have done.

That should be the rule.

Yep.

Well you know I've heard people who do that.

They join in.

Did you ask her whether she could do a Tuesday.

I don't think you should make Linda wait.

I love that.

Well I guess that's it.

Linda's been cooking all day.

What the hell?

What about her needs?

Who are you?

Well I'm part of the conversation you ask all.