Tuesday, Oct 13: Getting Left Behind

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I mean the temperature is perfect so that can't be too bad and uh it is Tuesday which I know it feels like we're not in mid-October but we are it's hard to believe it seems like October just started yesterday but here we are it's mid-October it is flying by so uh really there's not that much time left before the election not that much time left before the holidays not that much time left before the end of the year also not that much time left to try to win 250 in our daily prize or 25,000 in our grand prize with Money Talks we're going to have 10 new codes for you today we're down to the final four days of codes so your first one will be coming up in the eight o'clock hour and then one every hour through 5 p.m thanks to our great sponsors for helping us make the money talk soft tub hot tubs and spas of Dartmouth MJ's pet training academy in a cushion Rehoboth Selectman, Lenny Mills Jr., and American Form Corporation. But only one person can win $25,000. The rest of us are going to be stuck paying our heating bills this winter, heating bills that are on the rise. But there are some programs out there that help. And later on this morning, we're going to have a guest joining us to talk about the Home Energy Assistance Program and find out who qualifies, what kind of assistance you can get, and how to go about applying for it. So it'll be coming up in the 8 o'clock hour. very important information even if you don't qualify save that information because you might know somebody who does and many times the qualifications are not as restrictive as you think they are so we'll find out about all of that coming up in the eight o'clock hour you heard in the news Mike Roberts sharing with you the story of the person who was killed by touching the third rail on the MBTA so this is unofficial this is not information that came from the MBTA or the district attorney's office this came from a friend of mine who was an eyewitness a friend of mine who was actually on the train when this happened and what happened was this person apparently opened the emergency door of the train you know how you can like try to make an emergency stop uh you pull the cord you can make the emergency stop he did that force opened the door and jumped and they made everybody that was on the train they had to sit there i think they were stuck there for about two hours and then then they opened the door and they must have disengaged the third rail because they had people leaving the train and walking down the tracks he had posted video of it and i can't imagine they let people out and onto the tracks with an active third rail so i i can tell you he's traumatized by it and i'm sure so are many of the other people who were who were on the train but maybe more information will come out about that uh as the day goes on we also have stories for you at wbsm.com and on the wbsm app as we do each day yesterday Michael Rock had the story that the Honeydew locations that are owned by Walter Moniz as you know he's he's had Chris McCarthy there at some of his locations for live shows those are now on the market so if you are someone who maybe you're in a variety of other businesses and you've always thought having a coffee shop would be a good investment maybe you're somebody who is a big fan of Honeydew there's an opportunity here for you four Honeydew locations Conway Street in New Bedford that's the one on Route 18 Acushion Avenue in New Bedford that's the one in the the north end near uh Paraffas 63 Bedford Street in Middleborough and 855 Broadway in Raynham so for 750,000 you can get all four Honeydews and the licensing the the franchise license all the equipment all that stuff which don't get to the buildings those buildings are under lease agreements to the property owners but you get the business and the franchise rights so if you're interested all the information is in the story at wbsm.com and on the wbsm app but that seems like a pretty low price for what you're getting i mean i i would never have 750,000 myself to to go and buy this business but it seems like if you are looking to get into that that business or maybe you already are in that business this would be a steal it sounds like now most of the time i think the hard part is when you want to open a business is getting those franchise rights getting getting the license to open up a franchise years ago i talked i was working with someone who wanted to this is when when Hooters was expanding and he wanted to open one in the Wareham area he thought it'd be a good good place but you know you get Cranberry Highway you've got people coming to the Cape and he's like i don't know the first thing about how to set this up so i reached out to the corporate company to find out how much it would cost and at that time so we're talking early 2000s they wanted 75,000 a year just to call yourself Hooters like that was just the the base franchise fee every year you still had to you know buy all of the stuff from them you still had to buy you know carry all the merch all that stuff and they would get a cut of all that but they just charged you seventy five thousand dollars flat just to have that name and you had to build to their specifications so it just so happened the property that he was interested in putting it at he owned so he could totally refurbish it the way that they wanted to but then that's that's great but that's also extra cost on your end so in the And it proved to be a little bit more, a lot more than just that initial $75,000. So here, this is a business that already has gone through all the trouble of it's built to suit. It's made to fit what they want a Honey Dew to look like. It's got all the branding. It's got everything you need. It's turnkey if you've ever wanted to run a Honey Dew donut shop or four. I don't know how it works either if you could buy this four in a package and then sell off two if you wanted to. I don't know. You can call Ron Oliveira, whose number is in the story, and he can give you all the details on that. But it's rare that a chance comes up like this. And I'm sure somebody out there is listening and says, you know what? I have always wanted to own a donut shop, especially at a time when, you know, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, they're all exploding in popularity, which I think is part of the issue with some of these places. You know, when folks say, oh, I go to this spot, I go to that spot, they don't have enough people working. I don't know if that's true or if they just don't have enough people working to cover folks that walk in because they're probably busy handling all of these takeout orders through these delivery apps. You know, we had talked about this when someone had proposed on social media that the feast should do food delivery apps for people that don't want to go down there, but still want to have the food. And, you know, we talked about how that would be crazy because they're already trying to keep up with the folks who are there. imagine if you're pulling people away from that to fulfill these orders because you would get a lot of orders plus you know the more i thought about it how are the folks going to come to pick it up there's nowhere to park nowhere to leave your car they'd have to create like a special area for those drivers to go just it'd be too crazy but that's what the reality is for a lot of these these businesses now is that's that's become the primary customer base and so yeah they've got to they've got to fulfill those orders because if they don't keep up with the times if they don't if they get bad reviews if they get complaints then they lose that ability and that's what's keeping a lot of restaurants afloat in fact these days when i hear that a restaurant is closing the first question i ask is well were they doing food delivery apps because really a lot of the ones who are suffering are the ones that have said now we're not going to get into that 508-996-0500 app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app we still have our ticket giveaway contest going today you can enter to win tickets to see Completely Unchained the Van Halen tribute coming to the Vault on Friday night and you can win tickets to see Beck at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Saturday night so you can enter either of those or both you can only win one but you can enter both at wbsm.com and on the wbsm app both of those ticket giveaways brought to you by Stevie's Wine and Spirits in Fairhaven home of the Purple Dot where you can try before you buy and where you can find WBSM's Open Line Ale our partnership with Canned Heat Craft Beer Company out of Fall River you can also get it there you can try it on tap there and i'm sure they'll have it this Saturday at Fest on Ferry the big event coming to Canned Heat in Fall River Gazelle's going to be over there from Fun 107 he'll be DJing in the afternoon i'll be over there i believe Kelly from Stevie's is going to be there sampling some stuff as well it's gonna be all kinds of beers to try all kinds of fun to be had this Saturday believe it's from two to nine all right i've got to get our first break in of the morning we'll come back we'll get the news and then we can talk on the other side 508-996-0500 we will be back in a few moments do you know the difference between a caregiver and a care partner when it comes to dementia those terms help us understand the shift from two people helping each other more or less equally to one person becoming much more dependent on the other. 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The website and the app both went offline after a network security issue. apparently somebody had gotten into the system somehow and they ended up shutting down the system for security reasons and so that the app wasn't working which i don't think would be too big of a deal except for the fact that didn't stop and shop move away from physical coupons and have everybody start collecting those coupons and clipping them on the app i don't know my apps never really worked correctly for me every time i go over there and i'm like why don't i have any gas points. I'm like, we have to set that up in your app. I'm like, I've tried. Every time I've done it, it says that it works. So I don't really use the app at all. But if you do use it and you're dependent on it for your coupons and you couldn't access them and you're going there to do your shopping, I mean, I'm sure that was extremely frustrating. Now, everything still remained open, the stores, the pharmacy, the gas station, everything. And this wasn't just local stop and shop. This was all of them. But they're working on trying to figure out exactly what it happen and there's a story that i wanted to share with you this comes from wcvb this happened in new hampshire but i think we've all kind of been in a situation like this before where we've we've had this fear but this woman went into an urgent care clinic in Keene, New Hampshire with an asthma attack now she got there at well she got there like kind of late they closed at 8 p.m she got there kind of late they took her into the room at 7:45 well at 7:45 they gave her a steroid shot and they left her in the room and said we'll be right back nobody ever returned and she's just sitting there thinking to herself uh what's going on where is everybody why hasn't anybody come to see me it's been a while and so she went and opened the door to see where everybody was and she ended up setting off the alarm they'd left and they'd set the alarm they forgot that she was in the exam room and so now she's in this urgent care clinic with the alarm going off panicking she texted her husband they locked me in called 9-1-1 which i don't understand why she didn't just call 9-1-1 the police showed up and they said yeah it looks like they left you in there looks like they they forgot about you so the company behind the clinic uh they said that they're going to take steps to make sure something like this does not happen again they said we sincerely regret the incident that occurred on Thursday September 24th that's when this happened at our urgent care clinic in Keene involving one of our valued patients clearly this should never have happened and does not represent the quality of care we seek to provide the Keene community the practice manager immediately expressed our deepest apologies to the patient we have taken steps to ensure this won't happen again and we remain committed to providing the Keene area with high quality care we've been providing for more than a decade so the woman said she was just sharing the story with with the media because she didn't want to happen to somebody else but it is a pretty wacky situation to find yourself in it seems to me like that can easily happen i think the the practice should be do you leave all the exam room doors open at the end of the night that way there you're sure nobody's in them now that might not be possible they might have to keep them closed for the alarm to work if you are you know if you've ever been in a business where they have an alarm that has to get set at night i'm sure Dave and the team over at All Security Co could explain this better but uh many of them require any time that there is a particular zone the door needs to be closed for that zone to to activate so that could be the way that it's set up especially if it's like ground floor level and somebody could come in through an exam room window they want to make sure that if you open that door from that exam room into the main hallway that the alarm is going to go off so they might not be able to leave the door open they're going to have to add at least a room check before everybody leaves you know i mean even here i could stand in the middle of the the hallway here at the radio station and say hello is anybody here and if anybody's in any of the rooms as long as they're not in an office with the door closed they'd hear me and they'd say yep i'm back here okay have a good night you know and then leave but i still make sure i go around because we work in a business where somebody could be behind a closed door on a phone call a lot of us wear headphones when we're working on things at our desks so they might not hear me if i say hey anybody here i'm leaving gonna set the alarm so you have to do a physical walk around and check and you know it's not a huge place just takes a minute make sure the lights are shut off and they're gonna have to incorporate that and here she is just thinking you know uh they're taking it a little bit longer they said they'd be right back but you know that's that's all right it's they're probably busy it's an urgent care they're usually busy i just that's the one question i have like why did she text her husband and tell her text her husband to say call 9-1-1 maybe maybe the alarm was so loud she didn't think she could communicate with the person i don't know but that's not a good thing when you're in there for an asthma attack and then they give you something that's going to make you hyperventilate good thing they gave her that steroid first 508-996-0500 app chat and open line voicemails on the WBSM app we will be back in a few moments Hi, I'm Sherry Harris, owner of Life Source Water. 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You're listening to the Tim Weisberg Show. Call 508-996-0500 and welcome back. In NB, residents sending an app chat message said, "I know an elderly woman that was left in a room at Hawthorne Medical about a year ago after waiting about 35 to 45 minutes in the exam room she had to use the restroom when her daughter opened the door to take her to the restroom they saw all the lights were out and everyone had gone home luckily she wasn't alone or she would have freaked out. Yeah, I mean I think we've probably been in some of those situations. We've probably been in moments, you know, all of us, where "Oh hey, we're still here," you know, but it's another thing when they completely close down around you, like even, even here, if I'm going to use the restroom before I go home and I think like, you know, usually it's just myself or and our friend Jason here who's usually the only other person that's here late, but like I'll say to him, "Hey, if you're leaving i'm just gonna use the restroom i'll be out in a minute but i just didn't want you to think i was gone set the alarm so it's it's probably more common than we think but in a medical facility i mean i i know i know there's times i've been in a waiting room you know a an examination room at the doctors where they've kind of forgotten i was there that's definitely happened i know they'd like to say that it didn't but uh it i know it has yeah we forgot about that guy but i mean luckily i'm not there for an emergency or anything or anything serious usually just to check up but that's you know that's to be expected when it's in the normal course of the business day doctors get really busy their attention gets pulled from something else you know they're supposed to be coming back into that room and then someone asks them doctor can you just look at this real quick they look at it and they're okay and then like all right where am i going next and then they go to the next patient's room instead of going back to my room that kind of stuff happens but that's different than leaving for the end of the night it reminds me of what was always kind of like a hidden fear of any kid that rode the school bus and that's falling asleep on the school bus missing your stop and then like you wake up and you're in the bus driver's driveway i used to fall asleep all the time on the bus in high school and and luckily i had a a route at the time where it was Cremeset Point in Wareham so the bus would go down to Cremeset Point it would go past my house go all the way down to the point turn around and then come back up so if the bus driver saw me sleeping she'd let me sleep and then she'd wake me up when she came back around the other way she just stopped the bus and yell right your house okay all right sorry but like every kid i think has that fear of like falling asleep on the bus and then you don't get to go home even though you totally would the bus driver checks the bus when they park it make sure there's no kids on the bus although we hear those stories too but i think i have like the the latent fear of that situation when i'm in places don't don't forget about me don't forget i'm still in here but if you've been in one of those situations i'd love to hear the story 508-996-0500 or you can send an app chat message or an open line voicemail on the WBSM app also that Six Flags story all of the i don't know if it's all a majority of the Six Flags roller coasters are shut down now i don't know how many Six Flags are open today you know obviously yesterday was Columbus Day Indigenous People's Day day that a lot of people have off and amusement parks would be open for a monday but i think a lot of them by this point in the year they're not open during the week right especially like the Six Flags do their their halloween thing during the week or is it just weekends but they're they're gonna be going over all these roller coasters now because of this issue that happened in Georgia yesterday where a guy fell out of the roller coaster it was their Goliath in Georgia and he fell out of it and there were i heard it on the news this morning there were people who were on this roller coaster saying they could hear and feel the the belts the straps clicking and unclicking like as if they were coming undone and clicking again and that must must have been terrifying not only even if nobody fell from the roller coaster and and apparently this guy kind of bounced off their car and everything but even if that didn't happen and you're just on on the ride and everybody gets back safely but this is going on the whole time that's terrifying i remember there was one time i went on the Great American Scream Machine at six flags in new jersey and we were just about to take off and i stopped i stopped the operator said wait wait wait and everybody got mad because i stopped him because there was a double a battery rolling around on the bottom of the the cart and they tell you like if you see any loose objects let us know and so i stopped them and i said there's a there's a battery here and so the guy came over and he picked it up and everybody was like booing me and the ride operator was like this could have killed somebody which i'm not really sure the physics of that but i mean if we'd gone upside down it might have hit me in the head but it still would have been a just a double A battery hitting me in the head it wasn't like it was going to hit me at the speed in which the rule i don't know anyway i'm not a physicist it was the right thing to do and i'm glad i did glad i did that rather than take a double A battery to the nose while going upside down all right we gotta take a break here for our final break of the hour we will be back in a few moments and welcome back in jeff sent in an app chat message asking if we would be carrying the lieutenant governor debate today between sean oliver and kim driscoll uh no that is a wgbh uh radio production so they're the ones that have the rights to that uh you know there's all kinds of things to get involved if you wanted to simulcast it hi i'm sherry harris owner of life source water as a new grandmother and lifelong californian i care about what's in the water my family uses every day for over 40 years our whole house water systems have protected bay families with filtered water from every tap Now we are offering a double dip in savings. 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