House call
Jan. 29th, 2004 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerI never really worried about life insurance before, because although there might have been a bunch of people who might miss me if I were gone, there was no one for which a pile of money might make that any easier. But now I have a kid, so we're getting life insurance.
They sent a rep to our house today, a bizarre cross between a used car salesman and a nurse, to take information and take blood pressure and weight and urine samples and blood samples. He was a crappy phlebotomist. Granted, I have about the worst veins in the world for giving blood, small and prone to hiding, but usually the people taking blood complain a lot but manage just fine. I told him that I was sure I could get doctor's records to them, since I think they tested me for everything in the known universe in the past year, but he kind of wanted to save face since apparently he's a manager and trains the other insurance guys. He finally got some blood after a ridiculopus amount of trying.
Still, it was the closest I've ever had to a house call.bard_bloom tells me he had one once, when he was a kid. He had a cold, and his parents called the doctor, and had the lack of wisdom to put him on the phone to describe his symptoms. Bard, being the sprout of what later became a magnificent roleplayer, played sick so well he convinced the doctor to come down in person, apparently.
Now, all I have to do is pay a bunch of money, and then proceed to "waste" it by not dying for a long long time.
They sent a rep to our house today, a bizarre cross between a used car salesman and a nurse, to take information and take blood pressure and weight and urine samples and blood samples. He was a crappy phlebotomist. Granted, I have about the worst veins in the world for giving blood, small and prone to hiding, but usually the people taking blood complain a lot but manage just fine. I told him that I was sure I could get doctor's records to them, since I think they tested me for everything in the known universe in the past year, but he kind of wanted to save face since apparently he's a manager and trains the other insurance guys. He finally got some blood after a ridiculopus amount of trying.
Still, it was the closest I've ever had to a house call.
bard_bloom tells me he had one once, when he was a kid. He had a cold, and his parents called the doctor, and had the lack of wisdom to put him on the phone to describe his symptoms. Bard, being the sprout of what later became a magnificent roleplayer, played sick so well he convinced the doctor to come down in person, apparently.Now, all I have to do is pay a bunch of money, and then proceed to "waste" it by not dying for a long long time.
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