We pulled up to the banks drive up window yesterday so the wife could cash a check and I wanted to withdraw some ready cash for the weekend and were told ….
” We’re sorry Sir but our system is down and we can’t perform any transactions right now ”
“Well OK” I said and so drove off with the plan of a next day return all the while bitchin about the endless glitchin modern tech seems to throw our way . The next day we attended a Doctors appointment for the wife where the question arose as it has every single time we’ve ever visited a Doctor ….
” Is Wallgreens still your pharmacy of choice ? ” and so for the fourteenth time we explained to nurses and office staff that ” NO” it is not. Nor will it ever be again . Not only is Walgreens a Corporate that exists soley to provide stock holders their sustenance … they suck at what they do. We’ve endured excrutiatingly long lines there on more than one occasion for a prescription that is two days late only to get home and open the package of pills that looks uncannily like a tube of medicated skin cream .
Fortunately we discovered a Mom and Pop pharmacy that is incredibly quick and efficient. Harbor View Pharmacy in Port Charlotte Fl. is owned by an immigrant couple who came here to America in order to show us all how to do it right . Just last week I left the Doctors office and got in the vehicle to find I had received a phone message from them to say they were getting my prescription ready .
Today as we drove to the bank after the Doctors appointment her phone rang to inform we could already pick up her new prescription and so we quickly detoured . But she was a little dubious as it didn’t sound like the same place and the phone number looked funny . At our local Harbor View Pharmacy we were informed that no prescription was called in for her and so I called the number that called to inform us her prescription was ready and it was affirmed yet again that we could come by and pick it up any time .
” Where are you located ? ” I wanted to know.
” We’re on East Lake Ave. close to the corner of Lynn St. Sir ”
” What town ? ”
” Well … Seattle Sir ” ….. and this forced me to cancel the prescription with the explanation that it was unlikely we could get there before she needed it . Turns out that Harbor View Long Care Pharmacy of Seattle Washington is just as quick and efficent as our own beloved local Harbor View Pharmacy . We detoured again and went back to the Doctors to rectify yet another glitch before finally making it to the bank where we were informed for the second day in a row ….
” We’re sorry Sir but our system is down and we can’t perform any transactions right now “
