Thursday, December 27, 2007

Public notice

Dear General Public,


It is getting to be the end of the year. Your local community pharmacy is bristling with business. Between the increased volume due to respiratory ailments and people trying to get one last refill in before their insurance changes on January 1, things are very busy. Sometimes the pharmacy staff can be a little short with you because we've had people bitching about this, that, and the other all day long.

So when you call in a refill over the automated system and come in and pick it up, then call me after you get home to see if you can return it and fill it after January 1, don't expect me to bend over backwards for you. It is not legal for me to take medication back once it has the the physical confines of the pharmacy.

Your lack of planning is not my fault. If you would have planned ahead, you would have asked me to fill enough tablets to get you thru until about the third of January, then refilled your prescription normally once your new plan year has started. I didn't choose your sucky insurance plan, so don't get pissy with me.

And when you come back to the pharmacy to make a scene, please brush your teeth beforehand. Or at least use a breath mint or chew a piece of gum. Your ass-breath is not that appealing to me. Or your body odor.

When you storm away from the counter, it is not necessary for you to say "Thanks for nothing" and announce that you won't be returning to my pharmacy. Because you will. And it will probably be within the next 10 days. You only wait about 10 minutes to have your prescription filled at Pharmacy God Pharmacy. Once you go to my competitor and have to wait 45 minutes to find out that your prescription is too soon to be refilled, you'll be back.

And I'll forgive you for being a total ass/bitch.



Because I am a forgiving Pharmacy God.

3 comments:

girlvet said...

ass breath hahahahahaa

Blaze LaFlame said...

how true!

The Ole' Apothecary said...

Ass breath is the result of rectal wheezing, I'm told.

Blaze, I love that name. I might consider changing my name to Ember Coal--too hot to handle.

Interesting, as I read these blogs, that I learn of other pharmacists who have been hit with the noxious body odor of their customers. I remember one occasion where a woman's fumes remained in the air around my pharmacy department for almost ONE HOUR after she split the scene!

I don't remember my customers playing "musical calendar" with me, though, but I do go back to the days before computer printouts of itemized prescription expense records. We made them by hand! Add THAT to the third-party paperwork we drowned in.