A Boots Epiphany

[Augustus]

Right, so there I am, queing for 10mins because in these recession hit times, Boots the chemist can't be hiring enough staff to deal with the London Bridge influx at 8.45am can they...

...and I get to get served and take home mrs Wu's much needed soluble solphadene for her slipped disc issues currenty and it dawns on me, I could buy two boxes and not have to que up again in here for a few weeks more.

Boots - "Why do you want two boxes?"

Me - "Why can't I have two boxes? Well, so I don't have to que up in here again in afortnight's time all over again obviously"

Boots - "the pharmacist* says no, so sorry I can't sell you two boxes, you can only have one."


Me - "do you think if I were going to top myself, I'd pick a drug that meant I'd have to drink four litres of water and wait half the evening for it all to fizz away? Don't be ridiculous. I can go to the next boots and buy another box if I really need, but I can't be arsed."

Boots - "That's the rules"

Me - "it's not the rules, you just made that up".

Boots - "next"


I felt proper 'Falling Down' at that moment.

Why has everything gone mad? Why can't stuff just work properly?

Apologies to any nice Boots employees, but after the last few stupid months of the Wizard of Oz, sorry, pharmacist, not turning up and you not being able to get served (but not until you've qued for 20mins first) or the wizard of Oz, sorry pharmacist, going on a lunch break at the very moment you finally reach the counter after queing for 10mins and being told there's only one Wizard of Oz, sorry, pharmacist....I can't help thinking that Boots will be one casualty of the Tesco world domination takeover that I won't miss.




*now have images of the wizard of oz behind a curtain turning wheel puffing smoke and booming into a microphone... :roll: Never see 'em do you? Always behind their curtain. Little jumped up hilters.Get the foot soldiers to deliver their news of doom. :evil:



Not sure what the epiphany is, I think it may come to me later. It may involve Tesco.

 

[legrandefromage]

Blimey - and I thought I was mean punching the small child in the head at yesterday's car boot...

 

[Augustus]

Blimey - and I thought I was mean punching the small child in the head at yesterday's car boot...

 

[Easy_Rider]

I can't wait for Tesco to set up cinemas, hopefully they won't charge 2.50 for a small bottle of water :evil:

Silly rules bug me no end.

Went to Sainsbury's petrol station to get diesel for tractor, couldn't find the big container, so took a 5 litre petrol can tub and three 5 litre old plastic oil cans.

Filled them, went to pay.

Q: How much diesel did you have?
A: 17quid

Q: I mean how many containers?
A: 4

Q: Oh, your only allowed 2
A: You're joking right? It's less than 20litres, the big tub i didn't bring is 25litres?

Q: Are they proper containers, becuase they look like plastic oil cans
A: Yes they are proper ones, you're mistaken :evil:

So, a plastic can thats perfectly adequate to carry anti-freeze, or oil or any number of volotile liquids is not adequate to carry diesel! A substance that almost impossible to light, and in countries like Iran where it is plentiful and cheap they use it in garages as a degreaser! Where is the common sense? If it was petrol then that's something else i agree.

Anyway, got away with it.... living on the edge in political correct UK

 

[tintin40]

What are rules for??? But for breaking And that is silly rule :|

 

[legrandefromage]

I er... once pulled part of the ceiling down in KFC after I tried to yank the no smoking sign down to place in front of the two hairy bikers smoking in the corner.

The sign said 'smoking allowed in this area'.








I left never to mention it again, ever.

 

[J i m s t e r]

They have a breakfast deal on at the work's canteen.

2 bacon
1 sausage
Toast
Beans
Egg
Hash brown
Posh coffee

£2.50

But I don't want the hash brown or egg. So I put a portion of mushrooms on instead.

No deal, because I wasn't having the hash brown or egg. "But I'd just throw them away. I am actually having less, becasue the hash brown + egg total > mushrooms. "

"Sorry, no sustitutions allowed."

I can understand if people were substituting all manner of stuff, but mine is a slight deviation only.

I felt like brutally shoving it into her face, but I need the work...

 

[South Bound]

lol, sounds familiar. SB's dealings with Orange...

Mobile phone turns up in post on a Friday morning. Much grumpiness as it is the wrong one. This is after a particularly long and drawn-out couple of weeks of them faffing and not speaking to each other or me.

Have fight, win fight, get them to send right one next day. Saturday morning, right phone turns up. Ring them to connect it, they have to disconnect incorrect phone first (???). Phone working (sort of) by end of weekend.

Stick with me, this is the best bit, promise!

Ring the returns department on the Monday to arrange collection of the incorrect phone and they can't do anything because it has been disconnected by another department. I then had to ring that other department to have the incorrect phone reconnected by someone else and then ring back to have it disconnected by the right department in the same company so that I could send back the phone that they incorrectly sent to me in the first place. Any organisation that f**ked up needs to go broke...

I just tell them I am recording the phone calls now...

 

[Kestonian]

Dr K goes into pharmacy with two snotty children. Selects one bottle of medicine for 0-1 year old, and one bottle for 2-3 year old.

"You can't buy both of those at the same time"

So she left them on the counter and bought a bottle of gin instead.




(ok, I made up the last bit)

 

[Harryburgundy]

We are getting too many stupid rules 'cause of this lot

and the ever creeping compensation culture in this country.
Don't blame Boots...blame the stupid legal system.