"I'm getting really sick of you people..."

Those words were uttered to me and my two coworkers today. Let me just reiterate:


Do NOT give your business to Leo Rayburn, D.C., or Michael E. Turner, D.C.


These gentlemen, though I don't know their medical abilities, are vile, insidious, unprofessional people. They were obviously very annoyed by the fact that we were there, and had nothing but contempt for what we were doing. C'est la vie, right? In fact, Dr. Turner was being pretty confrontatoinal with us, so one of my coworkers stood up to him. Exasperated, he pointed to said coworker.

"She," he declared, "may NOT conduct any inspections here. In fact, she's not welcomed in my office." (What effrontery!)

The chiropractor:

My poor coworker!! Though she maintained a stony exterior, it still seemed like she was ready to cry. I offered to stay with her for the rest of the inspection, but she shooed me off to carry on.

My coworker:

I then checked out the office with a worker from the State Health Department. It was pretty cool. The worker couldn't have been more than 5-7 years older than I, so I felt a bit more confident being there. Every day I grow slightly more confident in my knowledge about the new anti-smoking prop, so I was able to intelligently answer some questions thrown at us by the chiropractors.

All in all, it wasn't as horrendous as an experience as I thought it would be. Though the chiropractors' comments and attitudes had a decidedly sententious air about them, they were bearable. Dr. Rayburn was far more hospitable than his evil counterpart, but both were reminiscent of frat boys on a power trip.

Long story short, they were actually in compliance with the smoking laws this time, so we were unable to cite them for anything. Bummer!!

I'm just wondering why people are so put off by authority. Really, when it comes down to it, most officials (says my sanguine little mind) are here to help. Police officers are supposed to "serve and protect," health workers care about the welfare of the general public, social workers try to provide the best services for their clientele, etc.

My view of how it should be:

I suppose I can see how smokers might perceive us as persecuting them, but we're not! I like to think of myself as a protector of non-smokers, not necessarily an enemy of smokers... it's a difficult distinction. Sigh. For the meantime, I suppose, I just do the best I can.




Anyway, as you can probably tell, I've been checking out a lot of new vocab (compliments of dictionary.com!) and doing an image search on google. Hehe.

Okee, that's it for now. Ciao!