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    Pharmacy Drive-thru Fun

    I don' t know who came up with the idea of a drive-thru in the pharmacy, but I really think it is about the stupidest thing that's ever been invented. I've finally had it, I just need to vent...

    1. The pharmacy drive-thru does not work like a bank. You don't put your prescripton in and get your medicine immediately. We have to do the same things that we would have done if you came inside. It is still going to take 20 minutes, so you'll have to come back.

    2. Please get off your cell phone, stop eating, or whatever else you are doing when you pull up to the window. Pay attention to what I am saying and answer my questions. There is a lot of information that we need to verify before we can start processing your prescriptions. If you drive off before I've finished getting this information from you, I will have to just put your prescriptions off to the side and wait for you to come back.

    3. If the pharmacist needs to counsel you on the proper use of your medicine, this still has to be done even if you use the drive-thru. If you don't want to do this through the speakers on the drive-thru then you will have to come inside. I'm sorry if that's inconvenient for you, but it will be much more inconvenient for you if you get sick or die because you didn't use your medicine properly.

    4. If you choose to be counseled while in the drive-thru, it would be a huge help if you made your kids stop screaming and your dog stop barking.

    5. This drive-thru is for prescriptions only. Don't ask me to go and grab you a quart of milk or a bag of chips. If you want to shop, you need to come inside. I am very busy and I don't have time to run all over the store grabbing things for people.

    6. If you are stuck behind someone who is taking a long time, perhaps you should come inside. Don't start honking or yelling what's taking so long. Trust me, I won't hold anyone at that drive-thru window any longer than I have to. I am going as fast as I can. It is not my fault that the person in front of you is on a cell phone, can't find their checkbook, is insisting that their insurance should have paid more, etc. You would think they'd have the decency to come inside so they didn't keep the line tied up, but I guess not.
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  • #2
    Quoth RxBoy View Post
    I don' t know who came up with the idea of a drive-thru in the pharmacy, but I really think it is about the stupidest thing that's ever been invented. .
    Texas (at least where I was living) is very against drunk driving. They have drive thru liqour stores.

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    • #3
      Quoth jackfaire View Post
      Texas (at least where I was living) is very against drunk driving. They have drive thru liqour stores.
      I went to college in NC and we had what we affectionately called a brew thru in town. Swear.

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      • #4
        I hate the drive-thru. It should be destroyed!

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        • #5
          In Dover, Delaware, there is a liquor store with a drive-thru window. What makes this one top all other drive thru liquor stores?

          It shares a parking lot with Happy Harry's Discount Drugs.

          And yeah, drive-thru liquor stores make as much sense as braille on drive-thru ATMs.
          Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull

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          • #6
            So, if I read your post correctly, the running theme is come inside for your prescription.
            A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)

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            • #7
              Quoth bainsidhe View Post
              So, if I read your post correctly, the running theme is come inside for your prescription.
              Hey, if you don't mind having the pharmacist give you your STD treatment instructions over a loudspeaker, by all means, use the drive thru.

              Personally, I prefer to use the drive thru for prescription drop-off, and then pick up my meds at the window where any questions I have can be addressed in a nice, quiet conversation that isn't shared with the rest of the patrons. The only time I've used the drive-thru for pick up was when I was too sick to drag myself out of the car. Good thing, too, since I wound up getting sick not three feet from the window as I was driving away.

              That would have been a nasty mess for someone to clean up inside.
              Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull

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              • #8
                We have drive-thru daiquiri shops here. These are allowed under the Open Container Law here for one reason and one reason only: They hand you the straw instead of putting the straw through the top of your foam cup full of boozeahol. Gotta love those intentionally-added loopholes >_>...

                As for the OT -- yeah, I would use something like that for dropoff OR pickup only (not even sure we have any here), I know better than to try and hang out there for half an hour...
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                • #9
                  Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
                  And yeah, drive-thru liquor stores make as much sense as braille on drive-thru ATMs.
                  Actually that is because they don't typically make different ATMs for the walk up and the drive up. The companies sell the machines then the bank decides where they go so they stick braille on all the machines.

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                  • #10
                    It was always my understanding that they put braille on the ATM's simply because the law required it. My question is, why do they have braille on "standard" ATM's that do NOT say everything out loud (assuming that "fully voiced" units even exist...it would be a good way to announce to the world how much money you have). tbh, it worries me a bit that they have braille on machines which are only accessible via the Drive-thru, where pedestrians technically are not allowed to go...
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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                    • #11
                      I love the drive through pharmacy. But I call in my refills in the morning and then zip through the drive through on my way home from work. If I get a new perscription that I know will be filled quickly, I'll just come in and wait at the counter.
                      I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Hermione View Post
                        I went to college in NC and we had what we affectionately called a brew thru in town. Swear.
                        I used to see tee-shirts and stuff for Brew Thru ('cause I'm not too far from the NC border, and therefore not too far from the Outer Banks)... That was a concept that always made me wonder. heh.

                        I hate using drive thrus for food, I don't think I'd like to use them for getting my scripts. The pharmacy I use, that location, doesn't have a drive through. Though, we do use a drive up window to pick up most refills for my grandmother...but it's not a civilian pharmacy.

                        To the OP, I think you make a good point about the drive up not being like a bank. I think too many people don't realize that. Of course too many people are stupid as hell...so there is that.
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                        • #13
                          O lord. The drive through stories I could tell.

                          One branch of the Aid of Rite was retrofitted, long after it was built,with a drive thru. Normally they have a window with a drawer, but this one had a lane at the complete opposite end of the building, so they put a pneumatic tube like the ones they use at the bank, with an intercom so we could hear what they were saying, and a camera so we could see them (except that it never worked properly). So one day this elderly gent drives up and starts hollering at the intercom.

                          "I WANNA REFILL ON MY VIAGRA!"
                          "Uh, sir, could you keep your voice down please?"
                          "MAKE SURE IT'S 100 MILLIGRAMS!!"
                          "Sir, the whole store doesn't need to know..."

                          If you choose to be counseled while in the drive-thru, it would be a huge help if you made your kids stop screaming and your dog stop barking.
                          Once had a patient at a drivethrough at the AofR who I couldn't hear over the excited barking of the dog. I raised an eyebrow at the dog, and the lady says "Oh, she probably thinks we're at Burger King." Makes sense, if you're a dog: your master drives up to a window, and then you get something to eat...

                          So I look around, and right there on the counter by the window is a box of Milk Bone doggy chews. I send one of these out the window, and the dog is happy and shuts up.

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                          • #14
                            I never saw too many drive through banks or pharmacies in Canada, we did have drive up ATMS, but not the drive through tellers I see in this country.

                            Honestly, I always prefer to go into a pharmacy to get prescriptions rather than dropping at a drive through. A drive through to me should be used for anything that can be handled quickly, dispensing fast food or handling an account deposit are examples, getting a script filled isn't.
                            "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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                            • #15
                              I always liked the drive through banks as a kid cuz the tellers would give us kids Dum Dum suckers.

                              http://www.dumdumpops.com/

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