- submitted by glarsten on 04/30/2009
And Stop By Thursdays For All Your Organ Transplant Needs
By J.Glarsten
Maybe I'm easily impressed. To me, this is kind of ridiculous. Not the abstract fact of it. But the execution. There are plenty of doctor offices in residential neighborhoods -- maybe not plenty but they're unsurprising. But neurologists? More to the point, a neurologist whose house/office looks like this and whose sign looks like it was stolen from a Neurolgists of Slovakia Carnival, cir. 1980s?
Who's going to visit this neurologist? A guy who apparently can't even cut his own lawn, rid his yard of weeds and junk and whose street address is imprinted on, among other things, an unhinged window sitting on the ground and apparently the center of his house as if some drunken middle school student with a ladder got a fun idea.
I was driving the other day, noticed the place and just stopped. Maybe I'm alone: I think a neurology center shouldn't be promoted across a house via a fire engine red sign that looks like -- if it didn't come from that Carnival -- a failed art project from the local pre-school. The guy couldn't even line up the sign evenly over his door.
I got out of my car.
I was curious. I went to the office door. It didn't open. I knocked. No answer. Knocked again. No answer.
I guess I just wanted to ask, what's up, any thought behind the presentation here? Why red? Why the window on the ground? Can't afford an address plate? And what's that second window doing there behind the first...not enough room in the garage...an immediate replacement when somebody smashes the first in frustration after a bad CAT scan?
I was heading back to my car when a guy appeared at the side of the house. He was heavy, in too short, too tight cargo shorts and a dirt-stained sweatshirt with the word PHAT on the front. I'm not sure why...I said: "You guys do heart transplants too? In the kitchen, maybe?"
The guy laughed. (I did too.)
I asked him if he was the doctor. He didn't say. He did say, "office closed...will open soon."
Didn't seemly likely he was the chief of the "Suburban Neurology" center -- PHAT? On the other hand, look at the house. He seemed to have a good sense of humor. Of course. I'd nailed it. Yes. Heart transplants...Ha ha, that's a good one...We don't do those;you'd need medivacs, etc. for that. But kidneys, liver, face (the 1st face in America just done in Boston), those are no brainers (no pun intended)...come by any time (preferably Thursdays) and we'll take care of all of your organ replacement needs. ...read more rants
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