For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 06, 2023

Charge him for a missed appointment!

What I like where I live in the States, I get reminder calls not only from my doctors but my dentist for confirmation.

we don’t have that problem. there’s a shortage of dentists, and you can wait months for apointments, so you never want to miss one.

I used to love fishing with my son.

Oh well!! I guess I’ll have to find something else to use as bait now.

What did the lawyer use when he went fishing?

Bating tactics!

My friend and I went fishing. He cast out first and got a bite. So he reeled in a trumpet. Then he cast out in a different area, got a bite and reeled in a clarinet.

After he cast out the third time, I said “maybe you’ll reel in a bass soon!”

That’s a rarity that a dentist opens his office on a Sunday in Canada. I wonder if John charges Mr. Dilbutt time and a half on the bill for that Sunday convenience? (If you don’t cancel your appointment within 24 hours of the appointment you get charged a late fee.)

WE have that problem all the time at H&R Block.

Girl looks like Pippi Longstocking.

If you could take days off for a nice day you would get about 350 days off a year here! 8 -9 days of rain this year so far.

maybe you should go over there and join him… with your dentist tools ready and tell him that they’re getting it done here then. ;)

Melissa looks like she wants to kill John. So does Jean.

Just bill Mr. Dilbutt for the missed appointment…

@Asharah- Right and the next time he comes for a visit, make him wait 2-3 hours!

The office in Canada would be packed.

I had a late afternoon appointment at a doctor’s office once. I checked in at the desk and waited. It was getting very late and the waiting area was empty except for me. I went back up to the desk and asked when I would be seen. The receptionist checked and it appears I had slipped through the cracks. The doctor had already gone home. But he did come back in to see me so it worked out but I was bit ticked off about it.

If I did something like that, I’d be charged $125.00 for a missed appointment.

Another appearance of Melissa, the red-headed, pigtailed young girl who is the bane of John Patterson’s dental work existence. She has appeared before and she will appear again. Beware, John! Beware!!

Put him on your “do not use novocaine list” and enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

Okay, I feel dumb. What’s up with the red finger? At first I thought the kid bit him, but he had already wrapped up her appointment.

Yep, this is why I quit making late afternoon appointments. The dentist was always calling me at the last minute asking me if I could come in earlier. ALWAYS!!! (Sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn’t. But when I couldn’t I felt guilty).

Wasn’t there one like that where John said there a woman who never came. Just as John is about to go to lunch, the secertary says “This woman is here, she kept her appointment”.

l never cancel physician or dentist appointments or am late if absolutely unavoidable…

You couldn’t have told me that earlier?

Melissa looks like the girl in Finding Nemo

If a doctor ever cancelled my appointment an hour or so before I was supposed to be there, I’d never be going back.

I bit my dentist when I was a child. In my defense, it was 60 years ago and Dr. Stuart was an old geezer who believed that Novocain was wasted on children’s fillings, so…no anesthetic whatsoever. He deserved it.