While the Oregon Health Sciences University, OHSU, doesn't officially have an intelligence test which their patients are required to pass prior to receiving services, if you drive there they do; it's called "finding the parking garage".
Lots of parking garages. Lots of Permit Required parking garages. Smart park garages abound, as well, for the Eye Clinic, various others. I just couldn't spot the one for the Dental School. And no place to pull over and leave the car whilst asking for directions, not that I spotted a map or anything while frantically glancing in all directions, traveling at 25 mph, the speed limit, through windy curvy blind corner abounding stop for all pedestrians oh my god im so stressed out heres an exit im going home where its safe
I didn't make my dental intake interview yesterday. You see, I failed their intelligence test.
After I reschedule I'm determining how to get there by bus, I'm not going up there by car, ever again.
When I called to let them know I wasn't making it, they got quite the chuckle from my saying I failed the Intelligence Test. Most people wouldn't phrase it that way. Most people if they couldn't figure it out would probably be far more antagonistic than I was, I was just glad to make it out of there alive, and no I wasn't going to try again later in the day, thank you very much, just let me sit and quiver for a while, recovering from the stress, which I got out of there before it set off the advanced stages of my stress reactions, but still I decided I wasn't going to do the other stuff I'd been feeling up to; gorgeous day, crisp clear blue sky, near freezing temperatures, nip in the air, the type of day that actually gets me up and going [once I've dressed for it].
Kind of like today looks to be.
Who knows, maybe I'll head out and get stuff done.
But not at OHSU.
About Me
- John Robert Mead
- Tacoma, Wa, United States
- Disability Retiree; Former Librarian [6 years Chicago Public Library, 6 years Oregon Historical Library, 3 years on-call]; Former Bookkeeper & Tax Preparer [worked with me fayther for 3-4 years]; Self-confessed Biblioholic. Inactive SCAdian [HL Ian Jameson, at your service], Inactive Ham [kd7mvs], Inactive pretty much everything, *sigh*
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Hi John -- I was looking around online for comments regarding parking at OHSU, and liked what you had to say :) I actually work up there with the parking operations, and at least once a day (usually several times a day) someone trying to navigate that maze of a campus tells me they're lost or something to that effect. Because I am familiar with parts of the campus, I can tell you that the Dental School parking appears limited to the first (and metered) level of the Campus Drive garage, right near the dental building. It's very easy to miss the sign that says that because it's not beside the road, which is where you have to be looking when driving. Too bad no one ever gave an intelligence test to the people who set up that place the way it is! LOL
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