I'm posting this for a friend. Far be it for me to suggest that a person my age could be fooled by the size of a medication bottle. After all, I'm only taking three medications and two of them begin with the first letter of the alphabet. One of the medications calls for ½ a pill every 72 hours. How's that for keeping it simple?
What my friend has discovered is that the pharmacy switches the size of the prescription container periodically just to remind him to mind his Ps and Qs. From my perspective it is not the pharmacy's role to ensure a person doesn't mistakenly process a lower-case p and q. The way I see it, if child proof caps are important, shouldn't consistency in the size of the prescription bottle also offer some level of protection?
Of course, my friend could easily use a colored highlighter and color coat his medication labels, but that seems like an unnecessary step if uniformity in the size of the container could be ensured. I could (oops – my friend could) easily tell the difference in the size of a container.
I don't yet think of myself as anything other than middle age, but some elderly person could become confused by a fast-talking con-artist (oops – salesperson) who attempts to get you to settle for whatever you can get. For example, at the General's suggestion (she has a host of them, and they surface regardless of what I'm doing), I telephoned to get an update on the installation of the gas fireplace logs we ordered in November. They were supposed to be installed before Christmas.
Okay, so the truck they expected to deliver the logs three or four weeks ago hasn't arrived. Seriously? As a result, the salesperson reportedly now has about 30 people who are mad at him because it is fireplace weather, and they are left in the cold.
I told the salesperson that I was not mad at him, but that I did anticipate his place of business to keep their commitments. He said that I had ordered their best seller and that they could easily accommodate my order if I selected something else. I assured him that I wasn't settling for something else.
He promised to check on the anticipated arrival of the long overdue truck and call me back. The way I see it, if the truck left New Jersey the second week in December, they should have filed a missing person report on the driver. We are not doing bait and switch! For starters the gas logs are expensive, and they were not on sale. They are exactly what we want. I'm not settling for a substitute.
Our world could be easier to navigate if one could depend on consistency. I'm beginning to think the new brand of consistency is to make-do with whatever you get. I'm not buying it!
All My Best!
Don
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