It wasn't that obvious.

Today's absurdity filled me with rage:
A few weeks ago my pharmacist tried to poison me. Instead of sleeping pills they gave me some antipsychotic or something. I wasn't too happy with them to begin with as they never had my drugs when they said they would. They had a convenient location and a nice web-based ordering system, but shit was never ready on time and the near poisoning (and how they handled it when I pointed it out to them) were the final straw for me. If there is one thing I value in a drug dealer it's competence at their trade. These people were not competent.

So, time to get new drugs and I figure I'll try a new pharmacy. I decided that since it was convenient I would go to the pharmacy in Top Foods. It's right next to the freeway so stopping by on my way home isn't a huge deal.
I go to the counter and it's just two people back there and no one is around, they are just hanging out. The guy comes over, I hand over my order and my insurance card and he says it will be ready in 10 or 15 minutes. I go wonder around the store, read some magazines, etc. Time is up so I go back. I stand at the counter in front of them while they type on computers ignoring me. Finally the guy says, what was your last name again? I tell him and he says oh it will be about 10 minutes. Mildly perturbed I go and purchase some stamps and then try to locate a mailbox. I fail in my search despite being told that one is outside so I return to the pharmacy. I stand there being ignored. After about 5 minutes they tell me just another 10 minutes. I sit down next to the pharmacy in the little waiting area and watch them as they type on their computers and do not appear to be putting pills in a bottle as they are supposed to. 10 more minutes goes by and so I go and stand at the pickup window and stare at them. Bored I start playing around on my G1, texting people and shit, reading the news, and generally just trying to distract myself from the growing anger at how long this is taking and how disrespectful it is to ignore a customer who is clearly waiting for you and has already been waiting for a fucking hour after being told it would be 10 or 15 minutes. An old lady with two little kids comes up and waits behind me, her kids are asking what a pharmacist is and all that shit. It's cute but annoying. Finally one of the pharmacists comes over to me and says they are having trouble figuring out the billing because the prescription had a coupon attached to it by my doc and they were trying to figure out how to make that work. I'm about to say whatever just give me my drugs and I'll pay when he says oh, and we don't have your drug but we can order it and you can be here in a few days. WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! I don't know if I've ever felt such explosive rage before, maybe once when I saw cops clubbing an old lady in the back of the head for no reason but that was almost a decade ago. I very nearly attacked the guy. I think he saw it in my eyes or something, he looked terrified. I got my prescription and insurance card back. I don't know if the children cried but I imagine they had some new words to ask grandma about after I was gone.

I wasted an hour of my life hanging out in a fucking grocery store getting strung along by those fuckers. I will never get that back.
Is it just me or are all pharmacists really fucking high all the time? I imagine with all those drugs back there they can just take whatever the fuck looks interesting, and even though a very simple robotic inventory system could do their job in seconds they know they will never get fired or replaced because its all illegal and shit to sell drugs unless you are a certified drug dealer.
It's more than an hour later and I am still full of rage about this.

What the hell is that?

This has happened to me also. Is embarrasing.

.... Well congrats on finding a job Lead.

You were in Seattle and you didn't call me?

So this was you? ;)

Spending 2+ hours a day on the freeway I see a lot of crazy shit that only confirms my dim view of humanity. Two traffic stories:

The other day I was in traffic on the freeway. I was in the passing lane inching along at maybe 15 at most and there was this woman who really wanted in my lane, it was moving faster than hers. None of the cars would let her in so I slowed down to her speed and looked over at her and pointed at the growing gap in front of me. She changed lanes in front of me. Shortly after were signs saying the freeway only had one lane open ahead. So the crazy merging process began. Slowly I made it to where I was almost in the only open lane. Guess who wouldn't let me in? That same woman I let in front of me earlier! We looked right at each other and then she turned away and acted like she didn't see me as we rolled along next to each other. I did all the usual things to indicate that I would very much like to merge. Because of the suddenness of having to form one lane I was running out of road and would have to stop soon if someone didn't let me merge. Fortunately the truck behind her let me in. After the freeway was back to four lanes she just sped up to about 60 and continued on her way like any other idiot driver. It wouldn't of created any kind of delay for her to return the courtesy I extended her and let me merge in front of her. So why the fuck didn't she let me? If I am ever crazy rich I am going to just ram people when they do that, merge right into them just to see their WTF?!?! face so I can laugh at it. I think it would be hilarious and hopefully they would find it educational.


Yesterday on my drive home I hit some traffic again. It was the most annoying kind where everyone speeds up and then comes to a complete stop suddenly then speeds right back up. It gets old fast. So like many others I tried to match the actual speed of the car in front of me so that I didn't have to stop, at most I slowed down or sped up a bit. It worked great but it meant I had a few car lengths of open space in front of me. No big deal to anyone capable of rational thought, in fact if enough people do this it can lead to some kinds of traffic jams clearing much faster than they normally would. The person behind me was not capable of rational thought. They got right up on my bumper and rode it. I could see them gesturing and yelling in my review mirror, it was an ugly little asian girl who could barely see over the dash. Normally if someone starts getting dangerously close I get out of their way but in this case there was nowhere to go. We were in fucking traffic and barely moving! It was kind of funny, but I decided to change back to the stop and go style of driving for awhile to see if that would get her to back off. So I matched the current speed of the car in front of me at all times, faster when they went faster and I stopped when they stopped keeping the same distance as all the other cars doing this. The car behind me stayed on my bumper almost the entire time, I think I saw her front bumper in my rearview once or twice over the course of a good 10 minutes of this. I got tired of it so I switched back to my old method of trying to maintain a constant speed. Eventually speeds started to even and then accelerate. The car stayed on my ass all the way up to 50 when she changed lanes and pulled up next to me in order to flip me off, then she took off weaving through traffic, I watched her cut people off and nearly cause several accidents until she was out of sight. About 15 minutes later I caught up to her (I was doing 70, cruise control is awesome). A group of semis teamed up to box her in at 50 and wouldn't let her change into the exit lane. I slowed down next to her and flipper her off as we passed her exit. Angry truck drivers, ftw!