It never ceases to amaze me.......

This guy came into the pharmacy tonight to drop off an antibiotic for his friend's kid. I asked if the child had had prescriptions and naturally was told "yes, of course he has." So I took the date of birth and put the prescription on the pile of things to do.

Now those of you who work in a pharmacy will already know what happened next. I went to fill the prescription and the kid wasn't in our system. It was a fairly common name, so I found about a dozen "John Smiths" in the computer but none was ever close to the date of birth I was given of 11/22/2002.

So the guy comes back right at closing and I told him it wasn't filled because I needed the kid's info. The guy was still sure that the kid should be in our system, but started giving me the info anyway. Only this time he told me the date of birth was 3/29/06. I said, "Oh! That's a big difference." So the guy got all defensive and said "Yeah, well he's just a 5 month old baby." Yeah..... and you gave me a date of birth originally indicating that the kid is almost 4 years old. I guess I should give the guy a break though. I didn't actually see the kid. Maybe he's HUGE for 5 months old?