Hello? Life on the line here!

[SadisticToaster]

I can see it now :

"Oh my God , I've just had the worst day ever , I had to wait 10 whole minutes at the pharmacy this morning because someone in front of me was dying. Why do these things always happen to me? I must have the worse luck of anyone ever"

[AirHostess]

Sigh. It happens a lot on planes.

SC: I want a coffee!
Flight attendant: We are dealing with a medical emergency
SC: I don't care, I'm thirsty.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I know we don't condone violence here at CS, but I'm not sure I could have resisted the urge to slap the person in the face and wonder how you managed not to.

Just when you think humanity has hit rock bottom, humanity grabs the drill, explosives and the back-hoe and keeps on going.

M

[Noelegy]

It never fails that when I go into my local Walgreen's to get a prescription that I know is ready because I've gotten the email notification, I will always get behind someone who's having a problem with their insurance and wants to take it out on the pharm tech, so I'm sadly unsurprised at this woman's behavior.

The other night it was a young mother of baby twins who both had ear infections, and the insurance would pay for antibiotics for one of the twins, but not the other. How do I know this? Because she repeated this information several times to the pharm tech, at the top of her voice, as though that would somehow sway the insurance company's decision. He remained professional and calm and told her she would have to discuss it with her insurance company, and she started telling him he was being "freaking ridiculous." When that failed to ruffle him, she turned around and started trying to engage me in her ire. I just gave her my polite "I'm just here to pick up my Rx" smile. Furthermore, it was a generic substitution and he was not refusing to sell it to her, just telling her she'd have to pay full price for the second script. I know that insurance companies can be incredibly arbitrary, and will do just about anything to get out of paying for something, and that the pharm tech was just a handy target, but still.

I eschew the drive-through because it used to be quicker to go into the store, but that seems to put out some sort of secret signal to all the rude people in the world to go pick up their scripts first...

[Crow The Robot]

What a B%$#@ ! Too bad they don't make a medication that cures "I-am-the-center-of-the-universe" disease. I hate humanity sometimes.

[Dips]

I betcha her prescription wasn't even those vital ones (i.e.blood thinners, heart meds etc....)

Of course it wasn't. People with heart conditions would conceivably understand how much of an emergency a heart attack is. They'd probably be happy to be the guy waiting an extra hour to get his digoxin instead of the poor guy dying on the floor. They also know they could be that guy dying on the floor.

[HYHYBT]

What was that wonderful phrase someone used here a while back? Pre-Copernican thinking or something like that.

[cewfa]

I think I would've told the lady to get out of my store, and took my chances with the manager. I swear some people have the manners of cretins.

[Format C]

What would it be like if the same thing happened to her and no one assisted? That is not something I would wish on someone, but for a case like hers, I would make an exception.

[chainedbarista]

What a B%$#@ ! Too bad they don't make a medication that cures "I-am-the-center-of-the-universe" disease. I hate humanity sometimes.

they do, it's a handy little drug called euthanasia-b.

[tollbaby]

What was that wonderful phrase someone used here a while back? Pre-Copernican thinking or something like that.

In scientific and religious terms, it's considered a Ptolemaic system (or Ptolemaic Theory - mainly that the Earth, or in this case, the SC, is at the gravitational centre of the solar system). Copernican Theory states that the Sun is at the gravitational centre of the solar system

It's amazing what you retain when reading dictionaries!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

*UPDATE!*

It turned out that the poor guy died. He suffered a brain hemmorhage.

His family is now trying to obtain the security camera footage from that day to see if the situation was handled correctly (translation: they've lawyered up and may be looking to sue. What for, I don't know. From what I saw the guy was being given the proper attention and everyone was helping to the best of their training and ability, but as we all know nothing is ever allowed to simply be an accident or a tragedy these days.)

Really puts things into perspective. What's more important: getting your birth control pills, your erectile disfunction prescription or your vicodin, or trying to save the life of somebody who's having a medical emergency?

[ebonyknight]

*UPDATE!*

His family is now trying to obtain the security camera footage from that day to see if the situation was handled correctly (translation: they've lawyered up and may be looking to sue. What for, I don't know. From what I saw the guy was being given the proper attention and everyone was helping to the best of their training and ability, but as we all know nothing is ever allowed to simply be an accident or a tragedy these days.)

Uh oh, I can see this being put on one of those video shows.

"And do you believe the gall of this woman, she is demanding that they stop give that man medical attention, roll him aside and give her, her prescription".....*audience* "Booooo..."

[ToasterQueen]

Sounds like someone was in to get some prescription-strength Midol.

Poor guy. I hope in my soul of souls that she finds out that the man she heartlessly stepped over and asked to be 'rolled aside' died. It's unlikely that it'll provoke any sort of twinges of guilt, but....She needs a karma stab.

[protege]

In scientific and religious terms, it's considered a Ptolemaic system (or Ptolemaic Theory - mainly that the Earth, or in this case, the SC, is at the gravitational centre of the solar system). Copernican Theory states that the Sun is at the gravitational centre of the solar system

Soooo customers really do suck? :P