I could swear that they used to tell you to stop flushing your drugs down the toilet and to take them back to the pharmacy for proper disposal. I tried that today and got in a heated discussion with the pharmacy tech. They were even pissy about taking my sharps container from the $1000 drugs my mom had to inject into her stomach. As I left, I threw away a cardboard box and the pharmacy tech panicked and called the store manager. She thought I’d thrown away the sharps container into the garbage. I saw her pointing at me and waving her hands so I walked up to them and showed them that I was still in possession of my “hazardous waste.” The manager was a nice guy and told me that if I thought she was being difficult, to tell the pharmacy manager.

To make things even better, my own prescription was denied as well. I called it in Sunday and they’d never called me to tell me there was any problem. It was all a large pain where I had to call the insurance company several times and sit on hold for 30-45 minutes. Fortunately, when I called back the pharmacy I got a sympathetic tech who sees me there all the time.

I’m not the only one who has received seasonal cheer today. I walked to the store (about 20 minutes each way) because I knew traffic would be awful. On the way back I saw a car stopped in traffic with its 4-way flashers on, blocking the only lane of traffic. People were honking at the car, so I wondered if it was just double-parked. As I got closer, I saw the guy trying to push it by himself, so I gave him a hand. He said he probably ran out of gas. We pushed it to a parking space and he was able to start it then and park it properly. A couple of other guys came up to help and we all agreed that the honking helped get the disabled car out of the road.