Snappy answers to stupid questions, #1 in a series
(With apologies to Al Jaffee and Mad magazine.)
Today I had to drop off a prescription at CVS. (No, it wasn’t so I could cook meth. I could’ve just bought the stuff for that.)
When I handed it over, the order-taker (I’m not sure she was a pharmacist), who never bothered to say hello or even look up at me, said, “When do you want this?”
To which I said, “Instantaneously. Doesn’t everyone?”
Which finally got her to look at me.
October 15th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Years ago, shortly after cutting off my finger I went to the pharmacy with a precription for pain medication. Presented it with my obviously-injured hand & got the same question.
October 15th, 2010 at 4:05 am
Good customer service would have the person taking the prescription asking are you going to wait for the medication and give a time when it would be ready.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Don’t apologize to Al Jaffe and Mad Magazine. Rube Goldberg was using that idea decades before them, under the title FOOLISH QUESTIONS.
“CHOPPIN’ WOOD, ZEB?”
“NO, LUTHER, I’M CARVING A BOWL OF SOUP.”
That’s an actual example from the book RUBE GOLDBERG VS. THE MACHINE AGE.