Just a small anecdote.
Two weeks ago, I attended a meeting in Sylt. During the meeting, one of my teeth got damaged. A huge part of my tooth just broke away as I was eating my lunch on Friday. The entire afternoon, I had a strange feeling inside my mouth. But it turned out a blessing in disguise: a dentist living right next to my hotel was on emergency duty and I got an appointment for 5.30 p.m. on the same day.
The dentist was a very nice person – and I also got the impression that he was quite competent. He took a close look at my tooth and took provisional care of it in quite a nice way. And he provided me with a letter for my home dentist. His advice was for me to go and see my dentist as soon as possible, because the provisional solution should be replaced by a permanent tooth crown.
That is exactly what I did. On returning home, I lost no time before calling my dentist and making an appointment. I also had the letter to be taken along. Except that, on the day I had said appointment with my dentist around noon, I had been going to the office in the morning because I had several meetings – and, of course, I forgot the letter at home. But my intention had been to drive directly from the office to the dentist.
So what to do now? To be sure, I could have asked someone at home for help. But how to get the letter to me or to the dentist with the least possible expenditure? It was all quite complicated. Well, I was a little desperate and truly annoyed with myself for having forgotten to take the letter with me.
Until, after quite a bit of consideration, I came up with an ingenious idea:
After all, a letter is also just “content”!
Consequently, I called home and asked them to, please, open the letter, scan the content and then send it to the dentist via email.
And then there was the next idea: why making it more complicated by scanning and sending – after all, we also have a fax machine, don’t we?
So that is what we used.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
The picture ist out of Wikipedia – see Sylt. Producer is AndreasPraefcke.
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