BAD PENNY!

Now lots of things can mean or be referred to as, ‘a bad penny’, but in this case I am referring to a bill still unresolved. “A bad penny always turns up” is a very old proverb that dates back to at least the mid-18th century and is probably much older. The general sense of the phrase is, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, “the predictable, and often unwanted, return of a disreputable or prodigal person after some absence, or (more generally) to the continual recurrence of someone or something.” Thanks to this site: http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/bad-penny/ Now the bill I'm referring to is the one from the health department that was originally over $130 and now it's down to around $92, since hubby called Tallahassee after he saw my frustration of trying to get the locals to call me back and resolve the why it was so much higher than my previous bills. So we did what they told us to do and Tallahassee and we paid $38 and change, since their main office suggested it as perhaps getting them to call me back and at least questioned why I paid that amount. That didn't work last time, they put a Post-it on a new updated bill with the 92+ balance and still even after I called and asked to speak to the proper person she never called me back. So I figured it was resolved and today like a bad penny that $92 plus bill arrived again and so I called again and spoke to her associate who told me that she is the only one that could figure this out and I said fine I want to speak with her. The other woman on the phone the live human being put me through to her line that is the other woman that held all the cards and still hasn't played her hand and of course once again I got her voice mail and left her another message. It was simple and concise stating who I was and my phone number and that I would like to know what the discrepancy in the two amounts were when I had an office visit in February and was charged $38 and when I came in May and was charged 130? I also mentioned that my husband spoke with Tallahassee’s health department and they were the ones who suggested we pay what we were previously charged, thus the $38 payment to her department. Also that they told us they felt this would make her call us to at least wonder why we paid that amount. But she never called. All in all, this aggravation isn’t worth it… especially with my medical situation so up in the air. Who knows what the non-health department doctors are going to ask for to treat me if I have no other choice. Don't get me wrong if that was what I owed them I would pay it but it was such an outrageous amount compared to previous bills, the most ever before was $60; perhaps you can understand why I want to know what's so different this last time. In truth if they would explain to me why they need that much more money from me maybe than I would understand, but right now it makes no sense at all to me. Moving on… The world has some people in it that could also be considered very bad pennies, and that's an understatement. A few extremists chose to use a youtube film as an excuse to kill four Americans in our embassy in Libya. And yes, it has come out that this was planned before the short film aired. Creating havoc in the Middle East in Cairo and Libya where work has been going on for years to make sure they knew we are their allies being there to help. And we still are. Again, these horrible extremists were in that 1% that I mentioned yesterday and thankfully most all other peoples in that area of the world know that. I think what Hillary Clinton our Secretary of State had stated when she spoke to our nation was concise and appropriate and around 45 minutes later our president spoke with us stating solidly and respectfully that this situation was not provoked by either of those countries' leaders. As I keep repeating there are bad people in this world and what they do is insight others to riot, commit murder etc. and like so much these days with instant media availability from every corner of this world unless facts are checked all hell can break loose. Knowing that we all have to be very careful in what we say, read or write or do, since we continually see what being misinformed can create; all out anarchy and heaven forbid dare I say, war and we must be so careful to never ever let this happen! Four very wonderful people that I understand were killed yesterday who had friends and families who loved them very much all for no reason other than to prove what, what were they trying to prove? On that conundrum of why people do certain things that don't make sense to the rest of us, count those blessing and share those overages and we will try to too, good night all and try to be good to everyone, even when it seems hard and I will try to too!