Background: I have a green-cheeked conure (parrot), Mozzie, who I regularly bring to work to give him a bit of variety. I work at two clinics: the main clinic and the branch clinic. Mozzie can't come to the branch clinic because I don't trust the cat there alone with him.

Friday morning shenanigans:
Home 
Me: Poor Mozzie! I'll bring you to work today because you were cooped up at home all day on my day off. But I’m going to be late! Dr Boss already told me off twice for being tardy. I don’t have time to fill your foraging toys so I'll just have to do it at work today.
Housemate: See you later!
*Stuffs cage into car and drives the 8 minutes to Main Clinic*
Main Clinic 
*Spots Dr Branch Vet’s car pulling out of Main Clinic*
Me: Oh crap! I’m supposed to be at Branch Clinic today! Oh no! Mozzie, you’ll have to go home. Oh man, I’m uber late now.
*Drives straight on past Main Clinic and drives 10 minutes home (it’s school time now so the roads are packed)*
Home
*Drops off Mozzie*
Housemate: Wtf? Lolz
Me: I'm laaaate! Byeeeee!
*Drives 8 minutes to Branch Clinic*
Branch Clinic
Dr Branch Vet: Um, Chryso, aren’t you supposed to be at Main Clinic today? The roster changed yesterday.
Me: OMG. WUT. Yesterday  = my day off!
Dr Branch Vet: Uh… *but I’m already gone*
*Drives 12 minutes from Branch Clinic to Main Clinic*
Main Clinic
Dr Boss: You’re late and there are people waiting. Where’s Mozzie today?

FML.

Don't worry that I've just done the best f-ing surgery in the entire world for the dog that you brought in with no appointment and a slash to the leg. Don't worry that I dodged blood vessels and nerves to fix a wound that would make most people faint. And how does it look? Perfect. And how does it work? Perfectly. And what scar will be left? None at all. And the fact that I only charged you for 10 minutes of surgery even though it took me 20?

Because really- is any of that as important as the fact that the cost is $100 more than quoted (including $90 of medications, which aren't included in the quote). And that when the nurse says the "Quote", a quote is different from an "Estimate."

(Don't worry that the form you signed specifically says "Estimate" and the words "The actual cost may be more, this is just an estimate.")

FML

An unconprehensive list of Things That Suck

-Being on call
-Working on a Friday night
-Being on call when it's heavily raining
-Not having had dinner yet at 9pm
-A client calls you but can't make it into the clinic for forty minutes. So it's not worth locking everything up, driving home, then coming back and doing it all in reverse
-The power goes out. Vet clinics are pretty eerie after hours when you're alone, and approximately six times more so in Complete Darkness
-All the machines start beeping, flashing and printing things at you because they've been reset. Unplugging them just makes them madder
-The internet connection is broken, so the next thirty minutes you have to spend alone in an eerie vet clinic with nothing to do (other than think up things you could post online, and be unable to post them).
-ALL OF THE ABOVE. AT THE SAME TIME.

FML.

I had a day off work today. Because I'm sick. With the cold that everyone at work has given me. Only I'm a casual so I won't get paid. FML