Is It Really That Hard to Be Nice to Service Workers?

A short story about a call from our vet.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
4 min readMay 7, 2024

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A vet tech poses with a corgi in a veterenary office.
Photo by Karlo Tottoc on Unsplash

We had a vet appointment scheduled for this morning. However, yesterday afternoon, the vet called us and asked if we could reschedule said appointment. The vet that would be seeing our cats was going home sick and wouldn’t be in today, so we needed to find a different day that would work.

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.