Today at work I was surprised to see a man come into the pharmacy with only half of his face shaved. Half of his face was a full “Santa Claus” beard, the other half had about three days worth of stubble on his face. He had to pick up a lot of medicines; I have to assume that he had some kind of surgery done on the side that had only the stubble, and it made me sorry for the guy. But I cannot imagine what in the world was going on in any one’s mind when they decided to only shave half of his face? I mean the difference is so extreme! I don’t know, maybe he is some kind of religion that frowns on men shaving, but is okay with medical treatments. What do you think?
Archive for September, 2009
Well the pharmacy has cut back hours so much that I haven’t worked at my headquarters in many months. So I’ve been bouncing around filling in as a substitute/floater from store to store. I’ve done a lot of travelling and met a lot of nice people! Having said that, I’ve met a lot of not-so-nice people too!
A few weeks ago I was working at a store where a customer didn’t have any health insurance and his prescription costs were going to be over $400! The customer asked if there was any way I could help him to reduce the cost of his prescription. I asked him if he had Internet access, and he told me yes, he did. So I advised him to go online to the manufacturer’s website of the medicine and download a coupon for the medicine and bring it back to us.
The pharmacist overheard me telling the customer that he could do that, and he was so furious he told me to punch out and go home immediately and never come back into his store! Can you believe that? Because I was trying to help a customer save some money on his medicine!
Yes, there are some real jerks out there, that is for sure!
I was just remembering a customer that came into the store last week that I wanted to comment on. She looked like she was in her 80′s at least, but she dressed like she thought she was only 16! And she had on so much cologne it could choke a horse! It was really hard keeping myself from laughing out loud when I saw her. She was wearing a skirt that was what I would call a micro-mini – not something you can bend over in and remain dignified! I’m not quite sure who she was trying to impress, but it really was pathetic. I wish that people would learn to dress a little bit more demurely when they get older! And use less cologne! If I dress like that when I’m in my 80′s I hope someone tells me to grow up and act my age!