"Silvan" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@giganator.family.lan...
Silvan's remarks about payments >snipped<
A bit of a story. Around the late 70s my uncle and the vet were getting some cows and their calves moved to a new pasture. This meant loading them in a cattle trailer and hauling them off. Well as one of the cows was scampering (well, to the extent a 1200 lb cow can scamper) past my uncle, she let out and kicked him oin the side of the face. "We better get you to ol Doc" said the vet. "Nah, I feel ok," said Unlce. Well within a few minites Uncle was feeling a bit dizzy and decided to go washoff his mug and assess the damage. He said that while he was walking past the kitchen window he happened to look and see his reflection. Said he could see his teeth through his cheek. Then and there he said he got dizzy as heck and had to sit down. The vet drove him in to see the Doc. (Everyone called him Ol Doc Biermann. He'd been in the community since the early 30s and had delivered whose grandparent he had delivered and in some cases, weas still owed for the delivery of the grandparents!) Well Doc sat my uncle down in the examination room and started cleaning up the damage. He had to sew on the part of uncle's ear that had been torn loose. After finishing up the stitching, he asked his nurse Ginger "Ginger, did I get that ear sewed on straight?" Heh, Doc was in his mid to late 70s at the time. Anyways, when the bill came it was a grand total of $150.00. Yep, one hundred and fifty dollars. This is the same Doc that prescribed 2 tablespoons of blackberry brandy for loose bowels. The community was saddened when he passed on.