What An Experience

Landon needed to go to the vet. Doing certain things while it is still a pandemic time is not easy. Believe me, it was an experience. First off no humans are allowed in the vet office. No dog is allowed to have anything on either: no collar, no harness, and no leash is permitted. They come out to get your dog and place a temporary name tag on the dogs.

So we arrive for our appointment and I call to tell them Landon has arrived. A vet tech came out to get him. Landon put up quite the fight. He was not wanting to go with the vet tech. He was like, "NO WAY, I AM NOT GOING WITH YOU LADY! I'M GOOD RIGHT HERE WITH MY MOM, THANKS!" It was so hard for me to watch and hear. He cried, he whined, he pulled, he tugged. He made quite the scene. So Landon goes in to the vet clinic and I stay in the car to wait. It was about 20 minutes until they called me on the phone to talk about why he was being seen. After that phone conversation I waited another 20 minutes or so for the next phone call to come pay at a window they recently had installed. I then went to pay. As for the window, it's a walk-up window that features a cutout at the bottom to slip a payment card through to the receptionist. Once arriving at the window I was reprimanded for standing too close. I had a mask on and there's a window, I was totally confused by the reprimand. But whatever! The receptionist did everything long distance she stood back from her side of the window as far as she could, she even shoved my debit card through the cutout back to me. It was rather weird. After I paid a vet tech brought Landon back outside to me. I don't think he has ever been that happy to see me as he was in that moment. I was happy to see him too. I apologized profusely that covid has screwed the world up so much. It was an experience. I have never been quite so anxious to get a vet appointment over and done with as I was today. It was a whole new level of desire to get through the appointment and be on our way.

The worst part is...I don't believe things are going back to the way they were before covid for a LONGTIME. I fear certain types of things have changed forever, it's never returning to how it was. Some things will come back but other things have been forever altered I believe. I also believe in 6 months, yes, 6 months when Landon has to go in for his shots in November I think his appointment will be handled the very same way.

What if drop off vet appointments are here to stay and paying through a window is here to stay?  Oh man, this stinks! I hate what covid has done to the world. I hate how weird and unfriendly people are now too. Covid is like everyone's built in excuse to be a jerk. Texas used to be so friendly, not anymore. It's filled with people reprimanding you for getting too close to a window and people walking with masks on and trying desperately to stay much more than 6 feet away.  It's also filled with people hoarding all they can.

Side note...Brad's office is not open to the public for now. He goes into work everyday but it's staff only that are allowed in the building, no residents, no prospective residents, no vendors, no one but staff inside. And what I'm about to say next is another reason why I think certain aspects of life are forever changed...Brad's company is having 2 windows installed at the leasing office for residents/prospective residents to come do "business" at the window. Business like get a pamphlet of the property, pay rent, or sign a lease and get the keys. Yep, covid really has changed things.