You Were Good About Putting Up With My Politics Posts. You Were Better In Picking A President. Have Some Highlights From Friday's Pill Counting Action

First question of the day: "My doctor told me to take some aspirin for my heart. What should I get? Tylenol?"

Second question of the day: "Do you sell aspirin here?" The person honest to God wandered into a drugstore and wasn't sure if the drugstore would stock aspirin. 

Which is not Tylenol by the way. I went to school for 5 years so I would be prepared to clear up confusion like this. 

My employer thought it was time to dress us all in new lab coats. They showed up 2 weeks ago, but today was the first day I had one of them on.  When my tech showed up, 15 minutes late, her first words were "Oh you're wearing the new coat! You look like a girl!" Great. 

That may have been why a couple hours later a customer invited me to "suck some cock," because I looked like a girl. Or maybe because when we told him his prescription would take about 20 minutes, and he said "I'LL BE BACK IN TEN!!" I said " you'll be waiting for another ten then" 

Good thing Proposition 8 passed in California, or the angry customer may have asked me to marry him. Unless he thought I looked like a girl. 

An actual question from an actual doctor's office around hour 5. "Why did you send me this prior auth? I'm just the prescriber!!"

For those of you not in the profession, I'll tell you it is the prescriber's responsibility to obtain a prior auth from your insurance company. 99.999% of prescribers realize this. Your insurance will not take a prior auth request from me. Even if I whine and cry like a girl.

A man at the cash register called his wife and talked for 10 minutes discussing the best way to pay his $5 copay. They decided on a debit card. Then changed their mind to cash. Then back to the debit card. The lesson to be learned; technology is vital to the functioning of a modern economy. God forbid we go back to 1990 when he just would have given me a fucking Lincoln and had 9 extra minutes in his day. And not had a cellphone bill.

The guy in line behind cellphone douche asked "Do you need a prescription to buy a pill cutter?" 

5 years to be able to handle these questions my friends. 

About an hour later a customer had a complaint. The sign above the pet aisle read "Dried Cat Food, Cat Food, Cat Litter, Dog Food" Cats were mentioned three times, dogs once. That's what the customer felt the need to complain about.

You know why you shouldn't bother your pharmacist with stuff like this, other than the fact that he's busy filling your goddamn prescription and stuff like this doesn't have a thing to do with your goddamn prescription? Because the pharmacist labor shortage frees me up to say things like "I couldn't care less about the pet food signs ma'am" to your face when you bother me with stuff like this, which is exactly what happened. You're way better off finding the community college dropout assistant manager who might actually get fired for calling out your odd obsession with equal time for dogs. Just a tip. 

At hour 10 a customer told my keystone tech "you've had a long day." Hour 10 for me I should say. It was hour 8 for my keystone tech, who was about ready to go home. I got to stick around for 2 more hours and ponder how much people appreciate my actual real long days.

Tylenol is not aspirin. Goodnight.