You are broke like the rest of us
Like all Pharmacists out there, I'm a cashier. That's right - I'm one of the highest paid cashiers in the entire country. Anyway, am I the only person that rings out a "rich-broke person" every single day? You know who I'm talking about...
"Okay, that will be $96.12 - You can swipe your card right there..."
"I'm going to use my debit card..."
[swipe]
"It says 'Card Issuer Denied The Charge'."
"What that's crazy. That account has over twenty thousand dollars in it..."
Yeah fucking right. My checking account has, at its HIGHEST one-tenth of that amount. How did you get all that money? And, more importantly, why would it say no for a measly $96.12? I'll tell you why - you don't have that much money and you're embarrassed. It's okay. I'm 100 thousand dollars in debt - The vast majority of my money is gone immediately after my direct deposit hits the bank. Don't lie about it. [I know, that's fucking harsh - forgive me]
Then there's my favorite...they guy that's Credit Card gets denied and he was hoping his deposit got applied already so he's back below his credit limit. That's fine - I played those games before...in college! But, once you're an adult it's time to grow up, and put away childish things...
People! Stop living outside your means. Credit card companies FEED on that idea nowadays. They want you to spend, spend, spend, and then live the rest of your life paying on the interest and not the actual debt. You're screwed. You're spinning your tires in a rut you'll never get out of.
Credit cards are for large purchases (and emergencies) only - something you don't have the cash on hand to buy but have the assets available TO BUY. Pay the bill as soon as it comes in and don't let the interest every acrue a dime on you...They get you buy offering ZERO PERCENT INTEREST UNTIL 2009! WOO HOO! So, you can rack up 5 grand on the card in the mean time, not pay a dime, and get your sigmoid pounded when it hits you in a few years. Don't be fooled...Transfering the balance may work - but it will catch up with you!
Of course that'll never work - otherwise Visa, Mastercard, and AMEX wouldn't exist. They'd be out of business.
How to not be a dick in traffic
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Alright, so I booted up Microsoft Paint and drew up a little diagram. The diagram explains one easy way for you find yourself with my foot crammed directly into your colon (via your rectum or mouth -- depending on the cost of the shoes I'm wearing). So, here's a quick rundown...Obviously, I am in car RAMROD and stopped at the stoplight. Another innocent motorist, stopped at the light opposite me, is in car RAMBO. The cars depicted at the top of the image are stopped in heavy traffic. Finally, we have ASSHOLE CAR on "his way to the pharmacy to pick up his prescription for Lore-uh-cets. He sees the gridlocked traffic, but dammit, he has a green light. He's going! He'll be damned if he's gonna stop at a green light....that don't make no fuckin' sense now do it?"
So, what does ASSHOLE CAR do by going rather than stopping? He blocks my fucking path towards my location -- the liquor store. Granted, sometimes the ASSHOLE may be lucky enough to avoid the ensuing gridlock he will cause if the NEXT block's light changes allowing him to clear the intersection. Sometimes, still yet, if you stop at the line before the intersection (as you should), traffic may thin or move forward and you can go on across with that same green light (This is the right/safe way to do this in traffic!) Most of the time, though, he'll sit in the middle of the intersection like the flaming pile of filthy pig shit he is...wasting everyone's time because he's an impatient cocksucker. In gridlock like this, where ASSHOLE CAR is faced with the decision to wait and let the traffic clear out a bit before entering the intersection, scientists have unequivocally proven that regardless of what is done, YOU WILL NOT GET TO YOUR DESTINATION FASTER BY CHARGING ACROSS THE INTERSECTION.
Now, what does car RAMROD do if ASSHOLE CAR is trapped in the intersection and the light changes allowing him to go? Most folks would sit there, shudder in complete disgust, and wait for the light to change and hope the following motorists aren't some sort of idiot bastard headed to the pharmacy drive-thru. I, on the other hand, take it upon myself to benefit society by teaching this piece of garbage a lesson...so the mistake can be avoided in the future.
I floor it. I may be a mere 30 yards away from this guy, but I'm going to make him think I don't see him. Then, at the last second, I'm going to slam on my brakes...hopefully, the tires will squeal. He'll be looking of course...hopefully realizing is an insignificant asshole. He'll see me and freak-the-fuck out. As I come to a stop, narrowly missing a horrible T-bone accident, I lay on my horn. I lay on my horn as if this fuckwad just swerved out in front of me, and I have a baby in the back seat. The next thing to happen is he'll look me in the eye. He'll know he was wrong. He may at this point realize he's had an example made of him. This is where you teach him a lesson.
You'd be surprised how well the average person can read lips. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" has proven to be easy to read, understand, and learn from for the average pea-sized brain imbecile behind the wheel these days. He may give you the finger...that's the most common reaction of idiotus maximus. I found that brandishing a switchblade is a great comeback to the time-tested reflex middle finger. That'll shut 'em up like a redheaded kid catching a backhand from a drunken stepfather.
The point of the post, though. How do you avoid being a dick in traffic...don't do anything I've talked about in this post except of course the approved retaliation for such an event.
Pharmacy Skewls? Idiots!
I just got an ANGRY ass email from a student at that fuck-stick-of-a-school, St. Louis College of Pharmacy. The 2nd year student was absolutely livid about some curriculum changes which he thought unecessary. It goes as follows:
Current 2nd year student: 300 Required IPE (Intro to Pharmacy Experience) hours
Current 5th year student: 65 Required IPE hours
Holy shit....what a jump! Now, why would the school mandate such a change? Well, it's all because their accreditation councils (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education) has mandated the change. Of course, without hesitation, the school has jumped through the hoop.
I remember my IPE days...they sucked. They were worthless. These are not to be confused with my APE's though....those were absolutely flawless, necessary, educational, and pivotal. However, IPE? Not so much. My first IPE found me working in a hospital. I followed a pharmacist around as he did nothing...all damn day. I did this one day a week for nearly two months. Granted, I had to make one presentation about the benefits of an injectable Zyprexa. I learned a bit there. The rest wasn't worth a shit. My next year's IPE found me working at a retail pharmacy that was slower than molasses. I did nothing. I learned nothing. All I did was spend several hours, one day a week working as a fucking technician for some pharmacy. It was a waste of my time. I would have rather been in a classroom actually LEARNING something. I was also required to do some community service. Doesn't that fucking contradict the point of community service? REQUIRE COMMUNITY SERVICE? What a fucking oxymoron! My pharmacy school should be slapped in the face for such bullshit.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to display here is that IPE's are worthless...or at least they were for me. My school's system needs serious revamping before they could ever implement some bullshit like this. Apparently, StLCoP is the same way. I dunno for sure. Either way, quadrupling the number of hours, pushing them to the summer break, and making them even more worthless, does nothing for our students and future pharmacists.
I hope StLCoP makes their IPEs challenging and educational. Otherwise, all they're going to gain is a semester of bored students, no-shows, and pissed off pharmacists who signed up for a student pharmacist and ended up with a hungover pile of pig shit.
Stop. Think. Shut the fuck up.
I stopped at a gas station this evening. An attendant came rushing out to me, "WAIT!" he said. I asked him if the gas station was being robbed. It wasn't. "We're out of Regular. We only have Plus and Premium."
"Okay, how much more is plus?"
"A dime."
"Okay. Thanks!" [And I proceeded to fill up my measily 13-gallon tank.]
Before he could walk away, another car pulled up on the opposite side of the pump. He told the owner of the '05 or '06 Ford Explorer the same thing.
"What? You've GOT to be kidding me! I'm not paying that much more for fucking gas! That's ridiculous. Can you give me Plus for the Regular gas price?" The poor kid's response was great -- "Of course not, but you're welcome to wait an hour or so until the tanker is here if it's that important to you..."
I went inside to get some gum and commend the 18-year old college student on the best burn I'd heard in a week. I then asked him if he'd really thought about the difference.
"Well, my old man owns this station, and he's told me it's a scam -- that there's really no difference in how the car runs. It just makes the emissions cleaner." [I know nothing of cars, EPA, etc. So, Dad could be telling the truth or full of shit.]
"Let's crunch the numbers. The nearest gas station is 5 miles right? [He nodded in acknowledgement.] That's 10 miles round trip since it's reasonable to think they are going to the interstate right next to us. That Explorer probably gets less than 15 miles to the gallon.
"If it gets that. Those things are gas hogs."
"So 10 miles at 15 miles per gallon is 2/3 of a gallon. That Plus-gasoline costs $3.00 per gallon. So, it costs that person 2 bucks to get there and back to the interstate. If they had just filled up and paid 10 cents more per gallon, to fill up their 20-or-so gallon tank, it would have cost them 2 damn dollars."
"HAHA. That's great. I've never thought of it before."
"So, they are no better off than I am paying 10 cents more per gallon here...except I'm about to go hit the interstate while they're still driving to the other station."
"Well, the joke is really on them. We use the same supplier as the station up the road. They are out too...So, rather than listen to me and driving off in anger -- they're gonna get there and have to get Plus either way..."
"Kid. I fucking love you. Have you ever thought about pharmacy school? Do you want a job?"I offered the kid a job where he could learn something, but he's just home for the Winter Break. He's studying Journalism at the state University. I hope he does well. He sure as shit made my night...
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