Look it’s Superdan!…I caught a felon yesterday. No, really.
I’ve worked in a pharmacy for a couple years now. (How time flies…) Work there is always interesting because retail is innately interesting. About three weeks ago, we received a prescription for Oxycontin 80MG #90. Now, Oxycontin is some seriously heavy pain medication and 80mg is as high as it gets. A dosing of three times a day like that would be fatal to you or I since we haven’t built up any type of tolerance. You’re not going to be on this kind of dosing unless you’re a cancer patient or in end stage renal disease or have multiple schlerosis or something like that. The point is that if you’re really in need of this, then there would be plenty of activity as far as prescription history goes prior to it. And here is a girl waltzing in with a prescription with no prior medical history, wanting to purchase them all out of pocket (about $480 dollars!!). Highly suspicious. So my pharmacist called to verify the prescription and found out it was a forgery. A really good one! We called the police because the doctor ordered it, but these people are really smart, and we didn’t expect her to return to pick up the prescription. True enough, she didn’t. Once the police came in to formally write up a report, they sequestered a picture of her from the video cameras and we were given a copy in case she did come back. My pharmacist thought it would be funny to paste a text bubble next to this photo that said "Oh Dan you’re so hot when you fill oxycontin" -_-;;; People loved it, and so I had the displeasure of staring at her picture every day "saying" that I’m hot for the past few weeks. Yesterday, I was covering the drop-off window where patients drop off their prescriptions when a familiar face came to the window. IT WAS HER!!! And surprise, she had another prescription for Oxycontin. I look up and did my best fake smile and excused myself to "check stock" ._.; and quickly went to my pharmacist whispering "it’s her. call 911". Then it was time to pretend I was a fumbling idiot who typed slow…anything to keep her there long enough for the police to arrive. My pharmacist couldn’t walk away or do anything suspicious, so he seriously called 911 right in her line of sight. I could hear what he was saying, so I bet she could have too. I decided to prevent that by diverting her attention to my voice and million questions that become kind of stupid as I started to run out XD (would you like child safety caps? can I have an alternate phone number in case we cant reach you? did you know we also used to have a staff member with the same last name?). I had only taken some 5-6 minutes when it became obvious that I couldn’t keep her any longer. I told her it’d be ready in 5 minutes if she’d wait, but she declined, perhaps sensing something wrong, and left for the door. I asked a coworker to quickly remove her pharmacy smock jacket as to not be obvious and quickly run to grab her license plates as she drove off. Apparently she had two african american "drivers" and as soon as she slipped into the back seat of the car, a buttload of police blockaded the car and came out with their guns drawn!!!! WOAH. That was fast! They arrested all three and blocked some 2-3 rows of cars from being able to leave the parking lot for at least a couple hours. Now, let’s pray that I don’t leave an evening shift at night one day and have retaliatory "visitors" @_@
2. I’ve been spending less time chatting or surfing or reading the newspaper because I realized that while they may be useful (being up to date on current news) or useless (surfing wikipedia for example), it still ends up being unproductive because in a month’s time I wouldn’t have remembered doing it at all. So, the last couple months I’ve been studying kanji and learning to play the guitar. Both are going kinda so-so, with the kanji study being a lot more productive than the guitar stuff. I’ve picked up on the Heisig method of learning kanji which has its issues, the biggest of which being that i dont know any on/kun readings. It’s also going to be a pain learning the compound kanji. Still, I can write from memory and know the meaning of nearly some 400 kanji in this short time, and without really trying all that hard. Here’s a list of most of them, if any of you jp people want to test me XD All of them are Jouyou common use kanji, but some of them are obscure. 口日月田目古吾冒朋明唱晶品呂昌早旭世胃旦胆亘凹凸旧自白百中千舌升昇丸寸専博占上下卓朝只貝貞員見児元頁頑凡負万句肌旬勺的首乙乱直具真工左右有賄貢項刀刃切召昭則副別丁町可頂子孔了女好如母貫兄克小少大多夕汐外名石肖硝砕砂削光太器臭妙省厚奇川州順水氷永泉原願泳沼沖江汁潮源活消況河泊湖測土吐圧埼垣圭封涯寺時均火炎煩淡灯畑災灰点照魚漁里黒墨鯉量厘埋同洞胴向尚字守完宣宵安宴寄富貯木林森桂柏枠梢棚杏桐植枯朴村相机本札暦案燥未末沫味妹朱株若草苦寛薄葉模漠墓暮膜苗兆桃眺犬状黙然荻狩猫牛特告先洗介界茶合塔王玉宝珠現狂皇呈全栓理主注柱金銑鉢銅釣針銘鎮道導辻迅造迫逃辺巡車連輸前各格略客額夏処条落冗軍輝運冠夢坑高享塾熟亭京涼景鯨舎周週士吉壮荘売学覚栄書津牧攻敗枚故敬言警計獄訂討訓詔詰詠詩語読調談諾諭式域賊栽載茂成城誠威滅減桟銭浅止歩渉頻肯企歴武賦正証政定錠走超赴越是題
