Five Random Things, Mid-October Style
1. I grew a goatee for 6 weeks. I just shaved it off. It's remarkable to me how much different I look to myself. I'm doing double takes in the mirror. Someone must explain to me how I could be staring at the same face in the mirror for 30 years and in 6 weeks my brain forgets what I used to look like without facial hair. Chalk it up to too much beer...speaking of which.
2. I accomplished one of life's greatest achievements a few days ago...I completed the 110 beer tour at Old Chicago's. What this means is over the last 10 years, I've purchased and presumably drank 110 different beers at one restaurant chain. Pathetic, perhaps...but I'm only 10 pounds heavier than I was 10 years ago which I guess means when I'm 80 I'm gonna weigh190. For those of you good at math, you can now calculate my weight. For those of you who went to K-State, just know that I'm skinny.
3. Cold medication purchase at Wal-Mart.
Much has been said vilifying Wal-Mart and until now I've defended Sam Walton's creation...but they've gone too far this time. Last night I stopped by to purchase the greatest non-drowsy cold medication invented, Advil Cold & Sinus, which is normally in large supply.
Well instead of boxes of Advil Cold & Sinus there were, in their place, plastic cards which looked like the front of a box of Advil Cold & Sinus. This was true for all cold medication. This card instructed me to take the Advil Cold & Sinus card to the Pharmaceutical counter where they would, hopefully, give me a box in exchange for this plastic facsimile. Well the Pharmacy was closed so I guess I'm gonna have to go somewhere else, but out of the corner of my eye I spot two boxes of Advil Cold & Sinus so I quickly grab one and proceed to the checkout.
After making my purchase, I stroll through the exit and the alarm goes off. Less than a second later, I'm being accosted by a grandmother holding some electrical device. Asking to see my receipt, I gladly comply. She remarks, "Looks like you have some cold medication." She checked my bag to ensure that I indeed meant to buy Advil Cold & Sinus.
When did purchasing cold medication become the equivalent of buying tobacco or a gun? It's over-the-counter medication, and last I checked, doesn't require a license or 5-day waiting period or even a minimum age. If this has already happened elsewhere and we're not just a test market...please let me know what in the world is going on.
4. "Listen to Your Heart" wasn't that great the first time around.
5. Prediction...in two years, 50% of adults won't recognize either of these names...John Roberts and Harriet Miers.
posted by Dale @ 5:14 PM
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Yeah, about the cold medication thing: It's now becoming the drug of choice for, I believe, crystal meth makers: there is a key ingredient found in over the counter cold-sinus medications taht is a key ingredient in making crystal meth, which is overtaking the drug world as the most popular among addicts. So now there are bills in the works both on the federal and local levels to have consumers need a prescription to buy cold/sinus medications, or at the very least, have them behind the counter at the pharmacy center at drugstores, including those drugstores located in places like Targets, Wal-marts and grocery stores, and possibly having those medications ingredients be changed so that one ingredient is no longer in cold medicine (which, incidentally is the thing that makes cold medicines work in the first place). Hence why you were card-instructed to go to the pharmacy and then treated like a felon at the store exit. You just proved how incredibly STUPID it is to have cold medicines behind pharmacy counters-when the pharmacy is closed, you can look forward to your stuffy nose, body aches, coughs and such. You can also look forward to trying to make a doctor's appointment just to get a scrip for cold medicine-as if it's easy to get a doctor's appointment somewhere in the next month or so to begin with. I don't know who to be more pissed at-drug makers or politicians. My only advice: stock up, even if it means having to go to three or four different stores in a day.
thanks for the update...I guess I'd better get some health insurance
What good is a DRUG store if it doesn't sell DRUGS???
The legal kind of course :)
It's not any good, actually. Blame addicts-they made it so regular people can't get what they need. Once again, it's punish the victims, not the criminals. My latest problem is that CVS pharmacies all have counters that are like, seven feet tall, so when my five foot tall frame strolls up to the counter, the pharmacist doesn't even know I'm there until I make the polite attention-getting cough or rattle my pill bottle with one or two pills remaining in it.
Not only do I hate the elevated counters, but I hate the choice of attention getting cough or ringing the bell. For whatever reason, I don't want to ring that stupid bell. I've actually taken to shouting 'Oy!' instead of dinging that bell.
You have a bell?! I would ring the bell if they had one-a nice hard annoying litle TING! like, "Hello-short person here in need of meds she really doesn't want to be taking in the first place!"
Oy! there! - it's been a while (since "Hello, Dolly!" which, btw, you had some good posts on).
Love reading your blog - thought I'd welcome you to the Old C's WBT Club!
Was it just me, or does having the waitress hand you a receipt that says "Congratulations, you've finished your first Tour" and then being out of your size of sweatshirt seem a little anti-climactic for all the "work"...?
(We should go have one some time.)
thanks for the congratulatory comments K-man...good to hear from you...if you check back, please e-mail me at jwdale3@yahoo.com...we'll go have a cold one, which will actually taste good because I'm on a new tour
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