My eyes aren't that good.....

A lady calls up the pharmacy today - CALLS UP as in on the phone - and tells me she's got a prescription in her hand from her doctor. She said (and this is exactly what she said), "It looks like it says Levaquin five something. Can you see it?"

Ummm..... maybe if you put the prescription a little closer to the phone?

It's customers like that that make me wonder why I don't take up drinking.......

Election ads

I've been seeing commercials lately for payattention.org - a website dedicated to getting people out to vote. If you haven't seen the commercials, they start off like any other commercial you might see for a political candidate, but then you find out that the "candidate" is a bag of leaves or an old relish packet. The idea is that they are trying to encourage you to pay attention to who you are voting for because otherwise you don't know what you will get.

I think their commercials have backfired though. Having seen some of the people running for office around here, I'll take bag of leaves any day.

Random questions from the pharmacy

Customer #1: My bottle says to take 1 tablet daily. Does that mean one tablet every 24 hours or one every 12 hours?
- Well, on THIS planet a day is 24 hours. Things on your planet may be different......

Customer #2: I was on 10 milligrams of this medicine and now the doctor put me on 20 milligrams. Is that stronger?
- Yes. 20 milligrams is twice as much medicine as 10 milligrams. (Sadly it took 10 minutes of conversation where I stated that and restated that many times before the customer finally left. And he still seemed confused.)

Customer #3: I've been sick since Friday [and it's now Monday.] Do you think it's a 24 hour bug?
- Yes. You just were unlucky enough to catch it 4 times in a row!

No wonder I find more grey hairs every day.......