Things I wish most people knew

I would like everyone to know the purpose of an appointment. If your appointment is at 10, don’t show up at 9, or at 12:15. If your appointment is for a hair cut, don’t come expecting me to just squeeze in a full head of highlights. Also if you make one haircut appointment don’t bring in your five kids that need cuts too expecting me to squeeze them in.

Also the most important part….. SHOW UP! It’s been ridiculous the amount of no shows and last minute cancellations I’ve had this past year. I live in a very small town where prices are low, a haircut is $16. I average $300-350 a week in no shows.

I wish everyone knew how much easier life would be if we had universal healthcare for all. No one would ever go bankrupt because they were ill or injured.

I wish people knew how to call 911.
I wish people knew where they were when calling. Even if technology works-we still need to verify the location because sometimes (frequently) technology fails.
I wish people understood that answering my questions is important ,and is not delaying any response. Once I have the location and the type of help you need (PD fire or ambulance) they are on the way. Your answers to the questions are helping to provide the best possible outcome for the person having the emergency, and sometimes even you as a caller. Sometimes we are able to give instructions on what to do while waiting for the responders.
Sometimes the questioning seems “stupid”, but trust me, my 15 years of experience in my job tells me there may be a need for the question. We are well trained to forsee things you may not have thought of.
It is ok to answer “I don’t know” if you don’t know. It’s not ok for me not to ask, in case you did know.
The typical call takes less than 3 minutes, start to finish, if the caller is cooperative and lets me run through the questions. It takes lots longer if iI have to fight with you

That the rules of the road also apply to shopping with a cart!

Insert British 😊

I wish people knew that just because I work from home doesn’t mean that I am available for you to drop by during work hours, or ask me to do something that takes me away from my work. I have listed my work hours with administration and if I deviate, I have to let them know. I don’t like to make up the time at the end of the day because it eats into my family time and also it feels like I am always working.

I would like everyone to know that reverse morgages will take your house if you have to leave for 6 months, like for a nursing home, and you can outlive the terms and lose your house anyway.

I would like people to know that medicare b insurance plans are very bad. They put money back in your social security check and take it right back out to pay for the insurance. And if the company goes belly up ypu are no longer able to get Medicare b. Once you decline it thats it. It's gone.

These commercials prey on the elderly. I hate it.

Ditto Australian 

I think this starts with the "trucker" industry! We were on I-40 out off ABQ to Phoenix - and the return trip -- a strip of highway that ALWAYS seems to be under construction somewhere and a HUGE trucking highway -- and truckers were "side by side" preventing the use of both lanes rather than "zipper merge"!  

I wish people knew that the escrow portion of their mortgage is not only out of the control of your mortgage company but is incredibly likely to increase yearly over the life of your loan. Plan accoordingly

That using your bright headlights in regular traffic is blinding people going to the other way! Or it's the new LED headlights, or both. And I wish someone would do something about it before someone dies.

ITA!

Also, it goes both ways.

If you are a hair stylist, please don't take a walk in fifteen minutes before my appointment with you.

That happened at my last appointment and it really made me feel super unimportant. I made the appointment specifically with her because she's done my dd's hair before and I knew she would do a great job for such a dramatically changing hairstyle.

She did do a great job, but I felt juggled around and in the way as other stylists washed my hair, and were called to blowout the other woman's hair.

I wish people would learn that just because you see them doesn’t mean they see you. This mainly goes for pedestrians. Don’t wear dark clothes when walking at night. And don’t walk through a parking lot like you own the place. Yes, you have the right of way, but cars don’t stop on a dime and you are often not seen right away.

I wish people knew that bicyclists have to follow the same rules of the road as cars. Every morning on my way to school I drive through a very neighborhoody area with lots of bicyclists and lots of stop signs which they ignore. There are too many of them in pitch black clothes with no headlamps, no lights on their bikes, just the reflectors which are not effective if they are perpendicular to me barreling through stop signs.