Thursday, January 25, 2007

Highlights From Today's Pill Counting Action.

Actual Conversation With An Actual Customer:

Customer: Can I take my Amoxicillin with food?

Me: It won't affect how the medicine works one way or another.

When I am 87 years old and in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease, unaware of who or where I am, whisper softly in my ear "Should I take my Amoxicillin with food?" and I will mindlessly, monotonically, say "It won't affect how the medicine works one way or the other" That's how deeply the endless workday repetitions will have driven themselves into my brain.

Customer: "But what about my feelings?"

Me, thinking that I must not have been listening to the customer and had missed part of the conversation: "Excuse me?"

It will shock some of you to know that I am not the best of listeners at times.

Customer: "If I feel that the Amoxicillin will work better with food, then it will work better with food, right?"

Me: "No, it won't make a difference either way"

Customer: "Well I'm taking it with food"

Thanks for letting me know.....

Later a husband and wife dropped off a prescription for each of them. His was for Viagra. Hers was for Ambien, the wildly popular sleeping pill. Write your own joke here.........

And at the peak of bat-shit crazy busy time, a woman waited in line for 10 minutes, with a child maybe 3 years old screaming at the top of it's lungs, .....10 minutes of deafening child noise for her and everyone within a mile radius, so she could get to the cash register...........

.....and ask if we had any free calendars. There was particular emphasis on the word free. Of course the whole thing was shouted at a decibel level above that of the kid who was being given no incentive positive or negative to shut the fuck up, but yeah, free was the most important feature of her desired calendar.

There were no free calendars. From what I could tell the quest for one was the entire purpose of the woman's visit.

Release the scotch.......

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lol, I wonder how many couples get Viagra and Ambien together. I had the same thing happen on Monday.

Mc RPh said...

I'm surprised you made no mention of the wrath you inevitably faced when the lady was told you didn't have any free calendars - a decision to not carry any this particular year that was obviously made by you, not some corporate a-hole who gets a lunch and holidays off.

Anonymous said...

One of our regular customers gets 30 Viagra 100 mg every month. Which he gets completely free. He's like 60 and not exactly the most attractive man on the planet
His wife is on Soma, Ambien, Flexeril, Methocarbamol, Naproxen, and Lortab...
One of my techs today asked what her condition was so we could get a diagnosis code to override the Ambein so her insurance would cover it. She said "I dont really have a condition. HE has the condition...all of these are just for me to recover every day when he's done taking care of HIS condition"