Out of zinc with the rest of the world.
Did you hear that Keira Knightley is suing a magazine for accusing her of having an eating disorder?
I just hate it when the press come out with these completely unfounded stories about celebrities.
Friday night I picked up two prescriptions from the pharmacy. Birth control pills, and zinc that my doctor prescribed because I am “dangerously lowâ€.
I got home and realized that I only had the birth control pills, so I had to go back. I went back today and had what might be one of the stupidest conversations I’ve ever been engaged in.
Andria: Friday night I was here to pick up two prescriptions, and only one of them was in my bag.
Pharmacist: What is your name?
Andria: Andria.
Pharmacist: And what is the prescription number?
Andria: I don’t know the number.
Pharmacist: Well, I can’t look it up without the number.
Andria: The bottle was left here. Which had the label. Which had the prescription number. So there’s no way for me to know the number.
Pharmacist: OK. What was the prescription for?
Andria: Zinc.
Pharmacist: Well, I see that you picked it up already.
Andria: Yeeeeeeeah. But I didn’t. It got left out of the bag that the pharmacist gave me, and I didn’t realize it until I got home. So I didn’t pick it up.
Pharmacist: Well, we didn’t find any bottles left behind. It says here that it was picked up.
Andria (becoming extremely annoyed): Um. Yeah. But what I’m saying is that I didn’t pick it up.
Pharmacist: But I see right here that you paid for it.
Andria: I KNOW THAT. I have my receipt right here. I paid $43 for it, yet I have no zinc. Because whoever helped me didn’t put the zinc in the bag.
Pharmacist: But there was no bottle left behind. I have no way of proving you didn’t take the bottle with you.
Andria: You mean other than me standing here telling you that I didn’t get it? Can’t you fill it again?
Pharmacist: No ma’am. I’m sorry, but as far as we are concerned, you took the pills with you. I can not give you anymore.
Andria: Look. I’m not some hopped-up zinc addict who needs a fix. It’s a mineral. Not vicodin.
Pharmacist: I am sorry ma’am, but I can’t do anything. You’ll have to call your doctor.
Andria: So I can pay $43 more? Uh, I don’t think so. Get the manager.
I won’t tell you the stupid ass argument that I had with the pharmacy manager, because it was just more of the same as that conversation above. Needless to say, it took me a HALF HOUR of arguing with that ass to get him to give me the fucking pills. And that’s because someone who worked there overheard the argument, and told him that I did leave the bottle behind, and it was sitting with the refills that were waiting to be picked up.
Who the hell was I in a previous life that this kind of shit always happens to me?
15 Comments »
Comment by awittykitty
January 29, 2007 @
No Andria, its the people who work in Pharmacyland. They think that all their customers are a bunch of drooling junkies trying to get extras drugs and treat us accordingly.
Comment by hedgehoggy
January 29, 2007 @
Hardy har har! Good grief, Keira is naturally skinny. There are no tits for a reason. Why must people insist those that are skinny just put on weight to make others feel better? I’m skinny, too, but with a lot of muscle. My metabolism makes people jealous but not enough to think that I cause eating disorders. Bah!
Comment by warcrygirl
January 29, 2007 @
You can get a scrip for zinc? I’m surprised your doctor didn’t just tell you to go suck on some rocks or something…
Comment by GoingLoopy
January 29, 2007 @
Naturally skinny, my ass… And she does have boobs. One of them is hanging out of the top. I’m not saying she’s quite to the anorexic point, but the six pack belies the “natural” part.
And I hate pharmacies. I almost had to choke a bitch at Walgreens once. My medicine said “x refills till [date]”…it didn’t say how often. But she wouldn’t refill it because it hadn’t been a month. This was an antidepressant. However, she would refill the codeine cough syrup that the stupid doctor marked “unlimited refills” every day if I wanted it.
Fucking retarded.
Comment by DanjerusKurves
January 29, 2007 @
Guess I’m gonna have to weigh-in with my opinion on Keira [snicker … weigh-in] … I too think she is naturally skinny and probably weight-trains to ADD some muscle weight and shape to her body. I say this based on my own physique when I was much younger. These days it’s all about the battling of middle-age spread.
Comment by Andria
January 29, 2007 @
Weight… (see, I can pun too!) she lifts to add muscle and SHAPE?? Please point this shape out to me because I can’t see it. All I see is straight (and I’m not talking about her boobs). I’m not saying she should get fat, but ten or fifteen pounds wouldn’t hurt. I just think that over-muscle-y, too thin look isn’t pretty. Or feminine.
Comment by kristen
January 29, 2007 @
God, that picture makes her look FAT.
Andria, what happens when your zinc gets dangerously low? And holy cow, some pharmacists need to get stabbed.
Comment by Cardigan
January 29, 2007 @
Wait.
“And that’s because someone who worked there overheard the argument, and told him that I did leave the bottle behind, and it was sitting with the refills that were waiting to be picked up.”
Did they CONTINUE to say that you left the bottle behind?? What a bunch of fecking jerks!!
Um. As IF you paid in full, opened the bag, took out the zinc and, without being detected, went behind the counter to place the zinc with the rest of the to-be-picked-up-bottles. Only THEN could they say you left the bottle behind.
MAHN AH AHM MAHHHHHDDDD!
Comment by hedgehoggy
January 29, 2007 @
The abs give it away. When an anorexic gets super skinny, their muscles deteriorate too much to have any kind of definition the way Keira has. She just isn’t anorexic at all. Keira has said she detests the gym but trained for movies like King Arthur (definite muscles there) and does sit-ups while watching TV. That’s the only time she can put on weight. What is it about us skinny people that drive people with curves so nutty? Kate Bosworth and Nicole Richie are obviously anorexics. Nicole weighed 84 pounds upon her latest arrest. Paris Hilton has been recently shown to be bulimic thanks to things of hers from that storage unit. I’m lucky with my metabolism because I’m so active. Keira looks great to me even though I do love a little curves on a girl. I’d lick those abs!
Comment by Laurie
January 30, 2007 @
Duh…hopped up zinc addicts go to Ulta. Punch them in the throat.
Comment by Halo Askew
January 30, 2007 @
Kiera needs to stay clothed. As beautiful as her face is, at best her body looks like a gangly 11 year-old boy. And why does she insist on wearing gowns with plunging necklines and low-draped backs? It’s the whole Debra Messing ribcage spectacle from “Will & Grace.” And furthermore, Kiera already knows the rampant rumors, so why fuel them further by bopping around on a beach in an ill-fitting bikini? She’d look soooo much better in Dakota Fanning’s outfits. (Meanwhile, Dakota’s probably 18 by now and no one noticed).
And about your pharmacy debacle, what a bunch of idiots. They got all argumentative with you and didn’t even BOTHER checking to see if someone set your Zinc pills aside? And another thing, I hate small “offices” that can’t get their shit straight and communicate. I used to drive my co-workers nuts by overcommunicating and telling them stuff just in case (”if the delivery guy for the office supplies shows up while I’m at lunch, I put the defective binder that needs to be returned up front” etc) because there’d been so many times I’d been clueless when someone showed up to get something and I had no idea what they were talking about, b/c my fucking co-workers didn’t say a word to me (but I always took the person’s word for it and SEARCHED until I found it!) At any rate, so glad you finally got it sorted out!
Comment by Sam
February 1, 2007 @
I can’t believe you paid $43 U.S for zinc!
WTF?
You could seriously get a shitload of class A narcotics for that!
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Comment by DanjerusKurves
January 29, 2007 @
Would you believe me if I said “welcome to my world”? I faxed a FLEX heatlhcare claim on 5th January … by the 18th I had not received my reimbursement. I called and was told the claim had been processed as a 2006 claim and since my 2006 account was depleted the claim was void. They fixed that … but I still didn’t get my reimbursement. I called again. They said “You don’t have a 2007 account” … they fixed that. I still didn’t get my reimbursement … and so it goes and so it goes.