Am I reading the wrong newspapers, that's figuratively of course as I don't actually read newspapers?
Am I watching the wrong news channels, I only watch NBC as I can't stand Katie Couric and she moved to CBS news?
Am I listening to the wrong radio station, my car is constantly tuned into NPR?
Oh yeah..... I digress.
I went to CVS Pharmacy Monday night to pick up a prescription for Baby C. I thought it was going to be quick in and out job...but of course one should never assume anything. When I got up to the "pick up" line there was a ruckous going on. A man was online shouting and complaining as he tried to buy Sudafed for his daughter and his drivers license had expired.
Huh? Who cares if his drivers license has expired....what's that got to do with childrens cough medicine????
The poor man turned around to the crowd and asked if anyone had a drivers license that they could scan to buy his daughters medicine.
Of course no one volunteered as we were all completely baffled as to why you'd need a drivers license to buy a childrens medicine and whatever the crazy reason we didn't want to be associated with it on OUR drivers license.
The poor man started to get a little belligerent and a manager had to be called, only to repeat the same thing to him, that because of state law they CANNOT sell him the Sudafed without a valid driver license.
STATE LAW!!!! I said to myself....well heck thank god I didn't volunteer my drivers license if the law has anything to do with it! (I was THIS close to being the only good Samaritan about to hand over my drivers license for this poor man, I'm totally a naive sucker I swear).
The poor man finally walked away growling and spitting venom and something about how he had to walk 2 miles home to get his valid drivers license and how he'd ran out of the house in a hurry to get the medicine. (Not quite sure about the 2 mile walk thing still to this day?)
Of course the minute the man was out of ear shot, I piped up to the pharmacist "Why do you need a drivers license to buy Sudafed?" (Yep I'm that nosy one in the back row).
SHUT UP.....you HAVE to be kidding me?
I had no idea. Like I said...what ROCK have I been living under? Oh yeah the third rock down there on the right!
I usually NEVER walk into a pharmacy with my drivers license. Heck I hate carrying a purse! So I normally have my credit card stuck in one pocket and Baby C under my arm feet dangling all the way. I would have been a mighty peeved off if I'd had to march back to my car for my drivers license just to buy some over the counter medicine for Baby C.
All I thought about the entire ride home was if these drug addicts would JUST put their mind to other uses we could probably have cancer cured by now!!! I mean what drug addict realized that the ingredients in SUDAFED were exactly what he/she needed to make their Crystal Meth?
I mean I can barely figure out of if I can substitute regular cooking oil for vegetable oil when I'm baking a cake!!!!!!
I can remember how crazy I felt when I went into CVS before to buy cough syrup for my child and the same thing happened to me. I was pissed. Oh and it gets better at our CVS they scan your license and then actually have you sign this book saying that you brought the medicine.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness. This sounds like Bog Brother! I never carry my driving licence in case my bag gets pinched. Costs too much to replace them. On another tack, why hadn't the driving licensing authority contacted him and asked him to renew it? Surely they would.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we can buy Sudafed here at the chemist, you have to have a doctor's prescription. I have absolutely no idea what's in it.
Surely it would take a heck of a lot of Sudafed to make any kind of reasonable amount of crystal meth. You're right they are very creative and should turn their talents to more positive things. I suppose they may not be as lucrative!
Let me tell ya! Sean had to buy me sudafed, the real stuff, a few weeks ago. He asked the same ? when asked for his id. They keep track of how much you buy! We have 5 ppl in our family, we buy a lot of medicine!! I don't know how much you need to make meth, but I hope we aren't pushing any limits.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, it's not just sudafed. Have you noticed ALL the cold meds have NEW ingredients. The real meds are kept behind the pharmacists counter. Even childrens Dimetapp, the original. The new verson DOES NOT WORK. So b/c of idiot druggies, the rest of us have to suffer weak medicine that doesn't work. Or feel like a criminal for buying the real deal so our kids can breathe through the night.
*sigh* I wish I lived back in the 50's. Life seemed so much simpler.
That would be Chrissy, not Simon!
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yep, thank you Meth Heads for that. Here in CA you can't even buy the stuff over the counter. Anything with any ingredient that actually WORKS is behind the counter and most good stuff has to be prescribed by the Dr. They don't even sell cough medicine anymore.
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed by things like this! Like how did they find that out?! Who has time to sit around figuring if you have a rubberband, a stick and Robitussin that you could make a bomb or something ridiculous to that effect?! Nuts I tell you!
ReplyDeletei'm under the 4th rock then--cuz i didnt know that either---{"i'm meltingggg what a world what a world!"}
ReplyDeleteYeah the meth heads have totally screwed up the rest of us getting the really good cold meds that actually WORK. I never bother to go through with the BS of showing my license. The way work is going and my mood i'd cuss somebody out and land in jail for sure!
ReplyDeleteYou can blame the internet. One person figures it out then post it on the internet for all to see, FOR FREE!
ReplyDeleteIt's behind the counter because they used to steal it off the shelves. They would hit several stores and take it all.
Now you have to watch empty houses in your neighborhood also, they maybe meth labs. They can cook this stuff in vans, cars. You would be amazed.
while reading I was thinking that Sudafed could be substituted for a potent drank called Syrup. Which is basically a form of cough syrup.
ReplyDelete3-6-mafia once had a song called sippin' on some Sizzurp. i had no ideal it could also be used for crystal meth. scary.
Oh yes, we are aware of the ID required to buy certain OTC drugs. Basically when we lived in Kansas we lived in the Meth capital of the world. I was glad to give my ID if we needed cold medicine because the daily stories of dope head parents blowing up their houses with precious children the only losses in the fire makes me almost rabid. The county sheriff stopped up once when we were fishing with our grandson near our home. He explained that the place we fished was a known hangout for meth makers.
ReplyDeleteThere are also restrictions on a certain baby formula that you cannot buy without ID because it is also used in drug making.
Oh yeah....They keep all that behind the counter now. They moniter how much one person buys. As far as I know we don't need to show ID yet, but the time is probably coming. New York State is the worst about sticking their nowe into private citizen's affairs.
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