no sympathy...

ok, so this morning i listened patiently whilst the medical professional on duty for our prenatal clinic fussed loudly about partner(s), medical malpractice insurance, medicare/medicaid, general practioners who are now doing their own pap smears, amongst other circumstances that have caused this individual's personal income to drop $120,000 last year.....gentle readers.......for a person to induce a shread of sympathy from me in response to such an admission, it should have included the mention of food stamps, loss of house/home and other signs of impoverishment.....the shear fact that this person wasn't losing anything of value to the repo people.......was still planning exotic vacations........it was all i could do not to laugh aloud........if a person's income can drop by that much money....without much change in visible accutrements........why ask anybody for sympathyn let alone me.........