I pulled into the parking lot to start this day and I saw one of my regular customers walking into the store.
The great thing about community pharmacy is that you get a chance to know your regular customers. Because of this I went to Starbucks. Because I knew this customer all too well.
I waited in a long line without a care in the world. I decided to buy something for my keystone tech as well. "No hurry" I told the barista...... I ended up being about 5 minutes late to open the gate.
The first words out of the customers mouth when that gate opened were exactly what I knew they would be:
"HOW LONG?"
I am the king of passive-aggressiveness. Just ask my ex-wife.
Opportunities to fuck with customers will present themselves regularly to those who remain vigilant in the search for them. We had a customer this day who was named after happiness and joy. When her prescription was ready I couldn't resist:
"Are you Gay?" I said as I looked out into the waiting area. I played it perfectly straight but I have a feeling the customer knew what I was doing. There was a pained look on the customer's face. Huh Huh.....huh huh....
If you're the help desk rep from Cigna I went off on today, I'm sorry. Kind of. You started it.
At lunch I got some insight into the life of a hot chick. I mean smokin'. I mean Playboy would have been more than happy to sign her to a contract hot. There were two guys with her in line in front of me, obviously competing for her affections, and obviously not quite in her league. She got to the cash register first, stopped, stamped her foot impatiently and said:
"I don't know which one of you is paying for me but you better get up here now!"
Whereupon one of the guys did. I miss the ghetto sometimes.
Back to work and the other extreme. At least 250 pounds of fugliness spilling over hip-hugging jeans and wearing 2 or 3 faces full of makeup. "I cry after bad sex too, don't worry about it," she said into her cellphone as she walked past. I got the feeling she's cried a lot. Sometimes I don't miss the ghetto at all.
I spent a good 5 minutes trying to explain to a customer that the fact Toprol is off patent does not mean it's over the counter. I spent 5 more explaining to someone else that even though their insurance covers a 90 days supply of medicine, in the case of Amoxicillin and an ear infection, that might not be the best idea. Maybe it was karma getting me for the Starbucks incident.
That woman really was Gay though. Huh-huh.....huh huh......
