I was sick last week and the doctor gave me a prescription for some medicine. It was late and Walgreens was the only drug store opened. I walked in and I was one of just a very few people who were in the store. I went to the pharmacy and handed the guy behind the counter my prescription and he shouted back, "There are at least 14 people before you. It will be a fifteen minute wait."
Well, I saw no one in the store, but didn't feel well enough to argue, so I sat down and proceeded to wait. After about five minutes another man walked up to the pharmacy window with a prescription that needed filled. The same man behind the counter looked at this guy and said, "There are at least 32 people ahead of you. It will be a forty five minute wait."
I have no way of knowing whether the guy behind the counter was busy or not, but it sure seemed to me that he just didn't want to be bothered by work.
There is no real point to this story. It was just something I witnessed that made me reflect on my own actions when I don't want to be bothered. And I think I just might have learned a lesson here.
Well, I saw no one in the store, but didn't feel well enough to argue, so I sat down and proceeded to wait. After about five minutes another man walked up to the pharmacy window with a prescription that needed filled. The same man behind the counter looked at this guy and said, "There are at least 32 people ahead of you. It will be a forty five minute wait."
I have no way of knowing whether the guy behind the counter was busy or not, but it sure seemed to me that he just didn't want to be bothered by work.
There is no real point to this story. It was just something I witnessed that made me reflect on my own actions when I don't want to be bothered. And I think I just might have learned a lesson here.
