Did you see my post yesterday? More to the point, did you take a gander at the comment section? Lord. Someone spammed me and left a comment that goes on. For. DAYS. I'm leaving it because I agree with the overall tenor of the rant, which I gotta tell ya, is pretty impressive. Oh, it rambles and the author could have made his or her point in about 1/4 of the words. A few paragraph breaks would be nice as well. I certainly don't think Oprah Winfrey is to blame for the mess we're in, but I lost my crush on her about two years ago, so it doesn't rankle me to read that. Did I read the whole thing? No. It's a novel, for crying out loud, but it's there if you want to have a go. Here's the cliff notes: There's massive concentration of wealth and nothing is being done to change it. Say you: What does this have to do with your blog entry today?
Say me: Absolutely nothing.
What I am doing today is going personal, oh Anonymous One. I bow to your rant, offer you The Rant of the Decade Award, and offer my readers (a dozen or so, I think) my own little rant. It's a mere shadow of a rant, to be sure, but mine none-the-less.
Ready? Here goes.
So I'm in Walgreen's this morning looking for contact solution. I forgot to buy some yesterday and had to store my contacts in tap water last night, which is never a good thing. I do the thing we all do, right? Scamper down the main aisle and take a quick glance into each row looking for the products that are sorta what you need but not exactly what you need. This technique allows us to use the process of elimination pretty quickly: don't need stuff for the hair, or the nose, or the face...don't need toys, candy, cards...You get the idea. In a small store like Walgreens, the item you want is relatively easy to find.
Theoretically.
I do the quick row check and find nothing that would indicate contact products are there. Which is ridiculous because it's a drug store for crying out loud and they have to have contact products.
So I do the row check from the back aisle and in the opposite direction thinking perhaps I missed something along the way: cold supplies, toothpaste, toys, cards, hair, baby, makeup. No contact solution.
Huh?
So then it hits me that I didn't scan the back wall. The back wall oftentimes has weird products on it that don't necessarily belong in the bowels along with highly embarrassing items placed right by the pharmacist's window so you can't buy them in private. Back wall items include weight loss items, random books, the aforementioned embarrassing products, and, presumably, contact solution. I'm brilliant!
No go.
Seriously?
Another quick row scan and I'm forced into an action that is seldom used in familiar consumer territory: I read the aisle signs. It's a customer foul in a store that small and one that I regularly frequent, and I'll take my penalty for it, but I didn't want to be there all day. Surely, these road maps can offer me guidance, right? I mean, that's what they're there for. Except non of the signage offered any indication that eye products even existed in the store. I saw a lot of signs: cold and flu, allergy, first aid, feminine hygiene, baby, cosmetics, but no eye care. I went through slowly again rereading all the signs. Nope. Nothing. And I'm pretty sure I can read.
What the hell?
All righty then. Time to employ the Weapon of Last Resort.
It pains me to write this, but I'm not going to lie. My only excuse is that I was feeling a little desperate after circling those same six aisles for five minutes with nothing to show for it but frustration and empty-handedness.
I asked for help.
A defeated, shameful me to the pharmacy tech: Where is the contact solution please?
Perky tech: Aisle nine (and she points dead ahead.)
Sure enough, there it all was! Hundreds of products from which to choose! I quickly made my choice and, in an effort to gain back a modicum of self respect after this consumer debacle, I looked at the sign.
Aisle 9:
Dental
Mouthwash
Vaporizers
Incontinence
Health Care
I'm suing Walgreens for emotional distress. ->
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15 Apr 2009 3:23 PM
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