The holidays are over.
The holiday bloat is gone. (yipee.)
Now back to reality. (boo hiss)
Since we are back in reality I had to deal with the outside world again today.
And we all know how much I just love that.
It started with the idea of a flu shot.
Yes, I know most of you don't believe in them but Rick and I do.
Only get the flu when I don't get one and since I have an autoimmune disease I think it's a good idea to do this. Rick is the one who is normally around people, he goes into peoples homes and brings home to me all levels of creeping crud.
Yesterday Rick sat at the urgent care with people who probably had the flu as he waited for his flu shot. There were 2 older people who were coughing and hacking and of course never into their Kleenex, or hand or whatever. When he got into the room to get his shot they asked him if he was sick. He laughed and said, "I wasn't when I came in here but sitting out there for 30 minutes I don't know what the hell I may have caught."
The nurses laughed and gave him his flu shot and on his way he went.
(BTW, he gets a free one with his new insurance...another YIPEE)
He came home and reminded me that I still have not done this and I better get my butt somewhere to get one. So like a good 1950's wife I listened to my husband and after the gym this morning I went over to urgent care. The wait I was told would be at least an hour.
All while surrounded by coughing hacking sick people. Nah, not for me. Besides I went to the gym late today and I didn't have all that much time. So I walked to my car and called the CVS a block away. They said I could come right in, no waiting. I spoke to the pharmacy.
It was now 8am and they just opened at 8am.
I walked into CVS and I am the only customer in the place.
Great was my thought - in and out of there quickly.
I went back to the pharmacy and this woman asked what I was there for.
That is an odd way to great a customer.
I told her I wanted to get a flu shot and that I had just called. She nodded and said I needed to give her 15 minutes, all said while never looking at me only her computer screen.
She slid a clip board across the counter and turned away.
I filled it out and brought it back to her. She said that I had to wait 15 minutes.
No problem I can shop. I went to the greeting card section and thought I would buy some birthday cards I needed that were coming up. I browsed wrinkled creams, magazines, make up and looked at my watch. It was time to get my shot. I went back to the counter.
As I stood there she came over to me and said, "Can I help you with something"
This was said like she had never seen me before, but then again she never did look at me. (I am the only person in the entire store lady!)
I stated that I was there for a flu shot. She said, "DIDN'T I TELL YOU 15 MINUTES?"
(ah ha she does remember me)
She said this to me like I was being reprimanded from my mother.
I said that it had been 15 minutes already.
(Now I assumed when I called CVS this was the same warm and gracious young woman I spoke to on the phone because they had the same demeanor)
She told me that she was busy. I said, "I understand that but I am the only person here and on the phone you said I wouldn't need to wait."
She repeated and now quite pissed at me, "you'll have to wait 15 minutes" and walked away from me.
I am now late for work and can't wait another 15 minutes so I left.
No sense in saying anything because no telling what the shot would actually be if I made her angry. (You know like a rusty needle or something.)
Now in her defense I am sure she was busy filling scripts for people that would be coming in to the store today. I get that, however, if she would have just given me the shot I would be on my way and she could go back to filling scripts.
It was all so odd.
If I weren't going to a gym now I probably would blow off getting a shot but I've seen the people in the gym. Snot nose, coughing, not wiping machines, not covering their mouths etc. I really need that flu shot!
13 comments:
That angers me! Some people just have no manners what so ever!
Hope you had a good New Years!! Nothing but good things in 2013 hopefully!
I always get a flu shot. And I woke up the other night with all the feelings of coming down with the flu. But by the morning I was feeling fine. The flu vaccine won the fight.
Carolyn, Most people don't have manners. 2013 is going to be good despite this person that is for sure.
Mike - yep. I got mine at lunch today at Walgreens. I believe it will help. Damn gym rats!
As a military person for 23 years, I had to get a flu shot every year, and most of the time the shot itself made me sick. When I retired, I skipped the shot one year ... and got a case of the flu so bad that I actually wanted to die. Even my hair hurt. So now I get my flu shot every year like a good boy. And that CVS person needs a shot of something, too.
If she had just given you the shot when you got there, she could have been done with you and saved some of that sh!tty for someone else.
You take the shot, I'll take my chances.
Bill, thankfully I have never gotten sick from the flu shot. I've heard that before though.
At lunch I went to Giant and was told that I was not a priority so it would be a long wait. I was the only one there again. I swear there must be a sign over me. I thanked them and said I'd come back but instead I went to Walgreens.
The woman was so nice and made me laugh because she offered me a cherry lollipop for being a good girl.
That was 180 from the CVS lady!
Cora - you don't go out so that helps your chances of not getting ill. :-)
Just wait a day or 2 and you'll get it from Rick,problem solved ;)
When I first started working retail I was told that the customer in front of you is the most important. Take care of them before anyone on the phone etc. If only they taught customer service skills to everyone now a days!
Just wondering if she kept saying 15 minutes because the person who gives the shot was on break? Either way, she should have explain why it would take 15 minutes of waiting when no one was in the store. Or maybe her attitude is the reason :o/
i do not get the flu shot because i have low contact with the public and i often have bad reactions to drugs.
it is possible that the shot itself will make you sick. it is also possible that the people developing any given year's shot will get the cocktail wrong and it will be for the wrong strains of flu.
it's a crapshoot.
but it's also possible that this year's strain of flu will be THE flu.
my grandmother lived through the 1918 spanish flu in a place where they rolled the dead carts through the streets every day.
flu shot doens't guarantee you'll be safe. it gives you a good tool you maybe can use.
Years ago I never got a flu shot. When I was working for an attorney who had four kids, he said he got one every year. I would be out 2-3 times a year with the flu. He started buying me vitamin C. He asked me to get a firm-paid-for shot that year and I hadn't had the flu since. Until this year. This was the first year I got a shot (and the kids) and all of us got sick. And that level of flu...whoo lawd. If that was an abbreviated version b/c of the shot, then I feel for the folks who had the full on thing.
My husband doesn't get the shot (he works from home, figures the level of immunity from the rest of us will protect him). The kids and I were in here on the damn floor this year and he got nothing more than sniffles and sneezing. Asshole.
Arnebya, That was funnny. Not that you were sick, but the way you tell it. I keep hearing how this flu strain is so bad that even if i get it I will be thankful I had that shot. Man that's bad.
Now you just cemented that idea for me!
I too work from home as you know and that has saved me for years. Now that I go into the world all kinds of shit is happening. I don't like it. A curmedgeon needs to stay home. :-)
I'd get a flu shot for a cherry lollipop!
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