You’re my new hero.
Aw, shucks, 'twarn’t much.
::digs toe into ground::
Damn it, I almost spewed Rockstar all over my monitor.
Why do you hate fun?
Grrr. All I want is a Clarinex refill. I’ve started a thread in General Questions because my doctor’s office claims they can’t refill it until I come into the office because it’s the law that I have to be seen once a year if a doc is prescribing a med.
But that’s not what brings me here today.
So, fine, fuck it. I have refills left on my Walgreens Mail-Order service (there’s a reason why I switched to getting it thru my local pharmacy, but that’s not important right now). I go to refill it online, and it gives me the option to have it sent to my home or an alternate address. I try to have it come to my work address.
Error. Please complete the fields marked. Christ, the fields ARE filled in. Try again. Same error.
Call Walgreens and talk to a rep. “Our website doesn’t allow you to provide an alternate address.” Um, it’s right there on the website offering that very thing. “Our website doesn’t allow you to provide and alternate address.” I’m not lying, I’m telling you I’m looking at it right now. “Well, we’re updating our website and that option is not yet available.” Then you need to take it down! Why on earth would you go live with something that isn’t fully functional?? “I’ll pass that on.”
Grrrr.
And it wouldn’t piss me off so much, but I’ve had three prescriptions this week that I’m trying to get and it’s been one bureaucratic bullshit hoop to jump through after the other and none of them can be filled or re-filled. Just give me my drugs!!!
Local non-chain pharmacies make the most sense. Mine bends over backwards to help you out with shit like this. I don’t understand why people go to Walgreens. They couldn’t give less of a shit and it shows.
Because they have no other choice? There are no independent pharmacies in my city (the largest in my county) that I know of, and according to the local yellow pages, only two in outlying towns.
Even when I lived in the NYC suburbs, it seemed that they were on the way out, being driven out of business by the chains.
Nope, just the ones I have a response to. Funny how that works.
What, did you mistake this discussion board for the diary you keep hidden under your mattress?
Given that I’ve had a plethora of other posters tell me in public that I’m one of their favorite people here, I don’t just think it; I know it.
If you wanted me to give any creedence at all to your opinion, you might have posted something before now that would have gotten my attention in such a way that I would have any clue whatsoever who you are and, therefore, care.
The fact that the only person cheering you on is **Chefguy **should tell you something.
Reason #914 not to have a husband.
If you ever want to get it, don’t trust that they’ll pay it out. Find out what the statue of limitations is for doing something about it and what your legal channels are. I made the mistake once of trusting that someone who owed me backpay would get around to making things right, and screwed myself out of hundreds of dollars because of course the cheap fucker never paid up.
While I’m sure it was quite useful in practice, all I can hear in my head is, “This leash demeans us both.”
Speaking as someone whose grandfather owned his own pharmacy, I’ll agree with you in principle. Locally owned, independent pharmacies are almost always better. However, they’ve also mostly been driven out of business by Walgreens and the other big chains. There was a lot of shady business involved–my grandparents actually got a hefty payout a number of years back from a lawsuit dealing with preferential pricing–but even after the legal repurcussions the damage had already been done.
I have a wide selection of alternatives to Starbucks for my coffee and to Cheesecake Factory for my food, but if I want prescription medication, it’s Walgreens or CVS.
Nope, I’ll get in line with Chefguy. I get it: its a message board, you have the right to be an insufferable pain in the ass. Yay for you. But seriously, you actually take a lot of enjoyment out of the pit with your seeming inability to not respond to every fucking thing you read. I can’t stop you, no one can. You are the only one that can stop you. But I will say, that in the mini-rants threads, you seriously suck out all of the enjoyment of ranting. You literally make it no fun to post in these because of your never ceasing need to be right and to have the last word. (Oh boo hoo, SFG takes away the fun, I know its lame, but the only reason I come here is for amusement, and sometimes you just suck.)
I enjoy reading your comments in other threads, but these are fucking mini-rants, not mini-I hope SFG comes in and enlightens me threads.
So yeah, count me in on the complaints above.
Aw, dammit, I think I killed my iPod. It got goop on it in my lunch bag yesterday, and I washed it. That seems like a bad idea in retrospect. In my defense, it was late at night and I was extremely tired. 
For the record, I’m not madly in love with Shot From Guns criticizing other people’s mini-rants, but A. it’s a free world, 2. it keeps the discussion going, and iii. ignore it if you don’t like it. This isn’t anyone’s blog; if you post here, other people might comment on it. If you want minimal criticism, go to MPSIMS.
Nice simulpost from two sides of the debate, otternell - {high fives}
Add me in; I agree with this 100%.
Hey - its a free world, I agree. But every fucking time? Is that really necessary? For fuck’s sake, just cause you can open your mouth and be a shit doesn’t mean you fucking have to every fucking time. I come in here to catch up on all the ranting and see if there are one or two that I want to talk about, but for SFG she comes up with a rebuttal rant for nearly every mini-rant. That’s what I’m talking about.
If the Pit turns into a hugs n kittns place, that would suck ass. And no one is bitching about being criticized. What we’re saying (at least what I’m saying) is enough al-fucking-ready. Give it a rest, take a fucking day off. Or alternatively, don’t fucking critique nearly every fucking rant, don’t give advice all fucking day long.
ETA: the frustration isn’t directed at you CW - but the behavior I’m bitching about is annoying as hell, and has more than once made me consider not bothering coming back. And this is a seriously fun place 98% of the time.
No, this is the Walgreens Mail-Order service that is offered through my employer as part of my prescription coverage. Totally different that the brick-and-mortar Walgreens (who suck, I agree). Using a mail-order service generally gets you three months’ worth of prescriptions for only two co-pays. I stopped using the mail-order service for my Clarinex because it did not qualify for this benefit, so they would only send me 30-days worth. Well, that’s kind of a pain in the ass to use them when my local grocery pharmacy can do that.
So, for meds where I get a 3-for-2, I use the Walgreens Mail-Order service. For those that I can’t I use my local pharmacy.
Guns takes seriously the notion that the Pit is the place to flame. And there is precedent that mild non-confrontational rants go to MPSIMS.
On the one hand, I think she overdoes it at times. It is wearisome having to make sure you are 100% justified and right and correct in your grumpiness or risk getting sneered at and insulted. Paying attention to it and using it as constructive criticism can make you a better person, but it requires superhuman patience and humility when all you want to do is bitch out the person who made the grocery line go so slow.
On the other hand, it’s kind of hard to complain that people keep throwing themselves into you when you’re trying to hold a conversation in a mosh pit.
Yeah, that’s a good point.
Bosstone you hit the nail on the head.
Look, I like when SFG is handing someone their ass in a full thread that is intended to be an actual discussion. (This gets back to CW’s point about “continuing the discussion”.) Its a mini-rant - I’m not here to have a conversation, I’m here to bitch about something that annoys me.
If I wanted a conversation, I’d start a thread, not post a mini-rant. While this may be the forum for flaming, this is the thread for mini-rants. Not for well-supported issues which require debate.
Example, in CW’s post, she was bitching about goop on her ipod. Why did she add a caveat about “my own fault”? Because she knew that someone would come in and say that. And in my short time here, that would be SFG 99% of the time.
ETA: I glanced back one page, and post 313 is exactly what I mean. Telling someone else how to make microwaved popcorn or to get a different bag. STOP that shit!
To everyone who has a problem with the way I post in this thread:
This is a thread for minirants. You get pissed off about stupid shit. I get pissed off about you getting pissed off about your stupid shit. Therefore, I have as much right to respond to your rants as you have to post them. If all you want is sympathy, or no response at all, take it to MPSIMS. Or your blog. Either way, I won’t be mocking you there. As soon as you put it in the Pit, you open it up to comments, including ones from people who think that what you need is a smack upside your fucking head.
Goes both ways! 
Why does my ranting about your rebuttal rants mean I have to go somewhere else? This is the place for rants: therefore, I rant about something, you rant about my rant, and I rant about yours. You are not the final arbiter of what rants are acceptable here, so if I want to rant about you, I will. And that includes me thinking that you need a kick in the ass, after you smack me upside the head.
Well, at least this is the right forum for pitting SWG.
But taking over the thread to complain about them taking over the thread seems…weird.