Acupuncture.. A little bit of confusion

The phone rang this afternoon at around 12.30. Guess who it was.. Mr. Acupuncturist. Wanting to know where I was. I didn't know what he was talking about. He said that our appointment was for 11.30 this morning and he was waiting for me. But I know for certain that it was actually for 11.30 tomorrow.

He seemed pretty snotty on the phone and wasn't too pleased with me at all. He said he could only fit me in for a short session if I were to be there 25 minutes later.. I was sitting in my tracksuit, not properly dressed, on the computer. I needed to arrange a taxi, get to a bank and be on his table for a short treatment within half an hour, or else he was going to charge me for the treatment anyhow..

I was livid.. I didn't know what to do.. Was totally stressed out and couldn't think rationally. Mam was at work, so there really wasn't much she could do, but my first reaction was to ring her.. don't ask me why, because I couldn't tell you..
Thank god Eileen was home.. I was panicking.. Tried to ring ma on her mobile.. no answer.. I didn't have her work number.. Panic.. Eileen to the rescue. Don't ask me where she magically got Mam's work number from but we got her on the phone.. Me in hysterics down the phone "What am I going to do..?? I'll never make it! He's is such ****!! I know for sure it was for tomorrow". I don't really know what I expected Mam to do, being stuck at work..
Then.. oh no.. What taxi am I going to ring?? They'll never get up here in time.. Eileen, once again to the rescue.. "Niamh, get ready, I'll ring the taxi". And sure enough, the taxi was booked and would be here in 10 minutes, and would stop at the cash machine as well.. Thank god for that..
I ran out the door and before I knew what was happening.. I was on the beach in Thailand again, with 12 needles sticking into various points of my legs, stomach and hands.. I managed to relax, eventually..

45 minutes later, I was back in the taxi.. Feeling chilled and relaxed and nice.

I couldn't believe it.. DRAMA QUEEN!!
I looked back on the whole drama it had been and I couldn't for the life of me, understand why I made such a huge deal out of it. But when it was all going on, it was like the world was going the end and I wasn't capable of thinking..All rational behavior had gone out the window. In a situation like that I would have normally just rang the taxi straight away, ordered it for as soon as possible, ask him to stop at the cash machine, and hey presto..no drama no fuss, just sorting the small confusion.
But oh no, Niamh rings her mother close to tears, because Mr. Acupuncturist has wrongfully accused her of missing an appointment..and she doesn't know what to do.. Well, I mean, talk about a slight exaggeration. I feel so silly and childish looking back on it now..
Poor Eileen, I just kept shouting at her in total panic, and she just kept shouting at me to stop stressing. But she wasn't mad at me or anything..
Of course I thanked her and apologized afterwards when I was feeling a lot better..

Mr. Acupuncturist seems to bring out the worst in me for some reason. He creates a lot of "fuss and commotion" in my very boring weeks, that's one thing for sure. You may think that I really don't like him, after my first dramatical visit, the toast incident and now this.. But I don't dislike him and he reckons we "click" so that's fine and he's always nice and friendly..so really I shouldn't make him sound so mean, because he's not..
I suppose he just made today a lot more eventful than I thought it would be...
and it was probably the highlight of excitement of my week at the same time.. ;)

The moral to this wee story: Rational and straight thinking when I'm under any amount of stress is a BIG NO NO!! I'm ashamed to say, that it brings out the child in me, for some reason..