Had to go to the doctor today. Counting the pharmacy, I had to stand (actually sit since I was in my chair) in three lines. Every single person in front of me in all three lines were blithering idiots. I thought it might have been the person behind the counter. Nope. When I got to the front of the line I was taken care of immediately and quickly. So, the reason everyone in front of me took so long was they had to be blithering idiots. Gack! Of course I know that the country is full of booger eatin’ moh-rons. Obungler getting elected twice proves that.
We’re doomed!
I know what you mean about the average people around us. I’m not a nuclear scientist but I have taken a large stack of blueprints and built quite a few railroad and auto bridges across the western USA, with the help of many guys like me of course. But I ran many facets of the job mostly as a foreman and as a structures superintendent. I look at the younger men in construction today and I ask myself if their Fathers ever made them mow the lawn or fix their cars. They know nothing and generally are at the skill levels of young teenagers and they’re in their mid twenties!!
I’m retired now at 58 and damn glad of it too.
The last time I stood in line at a pharmacy, the person ahead at the window was having an endless dialogue with the gal at the counter. There was some quirk with the insurance; maybe he didn’t have the right card or something, and it wasn’t on file, or had changed, or maybe some other card would do. This went on for about 10 minutes, and when it all came to naught, the clerk held the medicine and said, “Perhaps you’d like to just pay for it and file a claim with your insurance company? It’s $27.45.” It seemed a relative pittance for the long argument, unless he was broke and desperate. But the guy walked off in disgust, complaining about a wild goose chase and how he’d go to some other pharmacy.
It was Obama? Fawk! I thought it was George W and his majority in ’06 who voted out overwhelmingly that put price controls (yep, Ron Paul voted for that shit too) on what you’re bitching about.
Keep voting…
Oh, but you guys oughta live in Tennessee, as I do… You’ll get stuck behind Baby Mama Darline, all 5’6″, & 295 lbs of her. She NEVER appears in public wearing ANYTHING but FILTHY Spandex, & her flock of dirty, squalling BRATS cause destruction & chaos everywhere they go. You never know how many of ’em are actually HERS’, since she babysits w/her sister Poovie Mae’s young ‘uns, too. She usually is in the van of Junior, her Main Squeeze, possible Baby Daddy, & all around “Good” guy… Darline doesn’t know it yet, but Junior, & her eldest daughter, Khrysti who just turned 14, have been “Doin’ the Nasty” on a regular basis for about 18 months now. Nobody knows who Khrysti’s REAL daddy is. The one thing you’d better NOT do is get in the way of their ’95 Voyager 1st of the month, when they “Draw” their Check. Which group is more revolting, the Schvartzers or the Po’ White Trash ? Prolly, around here, the Po’ White trash-They’re MUCH more common, & aren’t nearly as violent as their black counterparts are. But Po White kids can pretty much “Dry Clean” a mom ‘n’ pop convenience store as good as any pack of North American Pavement Apes can…
Rule of thumb: when I go to Walgreen’s to simply pick up a prescription, if there are more than 2 folks in line, I always come back later. Experience has shown that, should I get in line, it’s always some potential for yet another surreal transaction, like 1) a desire to pay for something in Japanese Yen or Zimbabwean Dollars, or 2) a mixup with the insurance, or 3) an extended complaint about how much a medication costs, or 4) some arcane question about the medication requiring a pharmacist to come over and explain in third-grade terms, or 5) the individuals also wish to purchase other items (in addition to their meds), one of which undoubtedly does not have a bar code (price check!!), or 6) a child screaming bloody murder is in tow, or 7) somebody has terminal body odor, etc etc. Afternoons are the worst times. On a few occasions when there are lines, I have noticed no one in the “Drive-Up” outside, and I’ll jog out to my car and am then able to take advantage of the fact that an evident high priority is placed on those drive-up customers; however, nevernevernever get in the drive-up behind a geezer. Never.
I get my prescriptions through my HMO. Most of my prescriptions are mailed. I do have to go once a month to get my methadone and hydrocodone. That usually takes no more than 15 minutes. Yesterday, it took about ten minutes. Without bithering idiots it would have taken five minutes.