2016 The year of the 9 Yeses

[+ purplekow]

I had to a routine medical procedure yesterday. I was compelled to fill out lots and lots of forms and one startling fact hit me. I am now a yes guy.

I used to fill out the forms, chuckled softly at the long list of signs, symptoms, conditions and procedures. I was a no guy. Run the pen down the no column and call it day. Yesterday I was all set, out of habit, to run down the no column when I realized I am no longer just a no guy. No more straight "No" ticket. Hypertension Yes Procedures Yes Medications Yes More yeses than I would have thought possible at the beginning of this year. I guess one could say I had a good run of "NO" and I should be, and am, grateful for that. I am just realizing though, I am always going to be a "Yes" guy. There are always going to be at least a few, and probably more than the 9 that I had yesterday. I want to No to Yes, but the Ayes have it.

So all you straight No guys out there, enjoy it and do the most you can do to keep it that way.

For my fellow intermittently Yes guys, lets make 2017 the Year of More No and Less Yes.

[+ glennnn]

I trust you could still say no to many of them. I certainly hope so!

[AdamSmith]

Lesson learned from my very long-lived gramma, who was grateful for every minute:

 

Long as I am upright and ticking off any boxes at all, I can't complain.

[mike carey]

Long as I am upright and ticking off any boxes at all, I can't complain.

You caught my attention there. I had thought that Americans call what we call a tick a check mark. I would have expected you to say 'checking off boxes' rather than ticking them (or ticking them off). I had no idea of the difference in usage when I first heard of check lists. I thought it meant things that had to be checked (as in confirmed) rather than a list that had to be checked/ticked off.

[jawjateck]

Lesson learned from my very long-lived gramma, who was grateful for every minute:

 

Long as I am upright and ticking off any boxes at all, I can't complain.

 

"Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live."

[AdamSmith]

You caught my attention there. I had thought that Americans call what we call a tick a check mark. I would have expected you to say 'checking off boxes' rather than ticking them (or ticking them off). I had no idea of the difference in usage when I first heard of check lists. I thought it meant things that had to be checked (as in confirmed) rather than a list that had to be checked/ticked off.

It may come from N.C. Piedmont and coastal plain linguistic patterns inherited from the region's Elizabethan- through Georgian-era settlers from England and Scotland. Given very restricted mobility until really the Second World War, those accents and speech patterns remained pretty much stable across those two to three centuries.

 

My own family's roots, and with a patronymic progenitor who was Welsh. Which British business associates give me no end of ribbing over.

[bigvalboy]

It may come from N.C. Piedmont and coastal plain linguistic patterns inherited from the region's Elizabethan- through Georgian-era settlers from England and Scotland. Given very restricted mobility until really the Second World War, those accents and speech patterns remained pretty much stable across those two to three centuries.

 

My own family's roots, and with a patronymic progenitor who was Welsh. Which British business associates give me no end of ribbing over.

 

And THIS is why we love Adam Smith so much. Everyday he posts things of interest.

[+ José Soplanucas]

You caught my attention there. I had thought that Americans call what we call a tick a check mark. I would have expected you to say 'checking off boxes' rather than ticking them (or ticking them off). I had no idea of the difference in usage when I first heard of check lists. I thought it meant things that had to be checked (as in confirmed) rather than a list that had to be checked/ticked off.

 

@AdamSmith is not the conventional American in many ways, Mike, all of them good.

[mike carey]

@AdamSmith is not the conventional American in many ways, Mike, all of them good.

I had sort of worked that out, Latbear!

[AdamSmith]

And THIS is why we love Adam Smith so much. Everyday he posts things of interest.

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

 

Oscar Wilde

[Rudynate]

I had to a routine medical procedure yesterday. I was compelled to fill out lots and lots of forms and one startling fact hit me. I am now a yes guy.

I used to fill out the forms, chuckled softly at the long list of signs, symptoms, conditions and procedures. I was a no guy. Run the pen down the no column and call it day. Yesterday I was all set, out of habit, to run down the no column when I realized I am no longer just a no guy. No more straight "No" ticket. Hypertension Yes Procedures Yes Medications Yes More yeses than I would have thought possible at the beginning of this year. I guess one could say I had a good run of "NO" and I should be, and am, grateful for that. I am just realizing though, I am always going to be a "Yes" guy. There are always going to be at least a few, and probably more than the 9 that I had yesterday. I want to No to Yes, but the Ayes have it.

So all you straight No guys out there, enjoy it and do the most you can do to keep it that way.

For my fellow intermittently Yes guys, lets make 2017 the Year of More No and Less Yes.

 

You're right - your list of "yesses" will grow as you get older. It may be denial, but, in spite of my "yesses," I regard myself as being in excellent health. I see the "yesses" as the inevitable small dings.

[AdamSmith]

You're right - your list of "yesses" will grow as you get older. It may be denial, but, in spite of my "yesses," I regard myself as being in excellent health. I see the "yesses" as the inevitable small dings.

My version...

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[Rudynate]

My version...

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'59 - it was very good year. I remember shortly after New Years, my father gave me a brand new, shiny 1959 penny. No, I don't still have it.

[+ Charlie]

When I am given the forms, I always leave the "list of medications" blank. The medical assistants usually point out that I overlooked that section, and are surprised when I say that I don't take any regular medications. But I am starting to occasionally say "yes" rather than an automatic "no" on other questions.

[+ sniper]

My friend's father, who is in his mid-70s, puts it this way:

Any day you can get up out of bed(and do that by yourself), and go to the bathroom(and do THAT by yourself), is already a pretty good day.