On little red tablets of contraband...
I've been a bit under the weather over the last week, to put it mildly, but the world is not going to stop just because I feel like hell. I ran out of anti-snot medication today at work, so I decided before subjecting everyone at my late-morning meeting to incessant hacking and droplet splatter, I'd run up to the CVS and attempt to medicate myself into some semblance of normalcy. I've noticed during this rhinovirus' tenure that the new pseudoephedrine substitute that they put in all the standby combo cold medications (thera-flu, day-quill, etc.) well, it just plain doesn't work. Not even as well, it really doesn't do crap. Nearly all manufacturers have voluntarily eliminated pseudoephedrine from their products so it needent not be sold behind the counter, because, if it is sold behind the counter, people don't bother to buy it. The problem is, pseudoephedrine (like real ephedrine) is really effective. So my plan was to brave the gheyass counter and get a bottle of the tussin and some good ol' generic Sudafed, as I was tired of feeling craptastic.
Twenty-five minutes of waiting behind a queue of geriatrics with full-blown dementia and countless others with insurance quibbles, as there is no seperate line for the simple pickup of OTC cold medicines, not only was I late to my meeting I was trying to prepare for, but I was ripping pissed off. Once I get my box of contraband I grabbed it and went to resume my shopping for soup and crappy orange juice and the pharmacist curtly demanded I come back and I had to show her my license and then she had to write all my license information down in the Big Bad Sudafed Consumer's Log. WTF! Like this is really going to curtail methamphetamine production. I then had to sign the holy book.
I am greatly amused that a beautifully penned, cursive "BullShit" looks quite similar to my legal signature.
I will probably end up in jail for terrorism or harassment. The five minutes of satisfaction were more than worth it.
Some day I hope we can revert back to a society that is less obsessed with bullshit govermnment posturing and actually deals with real problems. I also want that twenty five minutes of my life back, at my current rate, CVS and the current administration owes me around $35.
2 comments:
Stories like these make me never want to leave Europe. Why are American's so insane about what other people are doing with their body?
Seriously, it is getting old. My only hope is that with our recent change in administration, come the beginning of next year, things will start to get better.
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