Last night around 9pm I ended up taking Kevin to Urgent Care as he had been whining of a sore throat and not eating or drinking for me. (Along with getting a molar & sores on his tongue next to the new tooth) Two days of hearing him whine I had enough and called his doctors after hours and they gave me the permission to go in (otherwise insurance wouldn’t pay for it) so off we went. After waiting for 1 1/2 hrs we were on our way home with a diagnosis of strep throat. The only bummer thing is at 11pm at night, what pharmacy is actually open? Most of them close at 10pm.
Thankfully on the other side of town there is a Walgreen’s that is open 24 hours a day so my Mother-in-law said she would continue to watch the kids (she was already watching Katie as Paul was at work) so I could get his prescription filled. Let me just say… going someplace during the day and going to the same place late at night are two different things.
I told the pharmacist I would shop around until Kevin’s prescription was filled and didn’t think anything of it until I noticed the other people shopping at the store weren’t quite the type of people I would hang out with. Quite a few of them looked like trouble, maybe that’s because I walked around the corner where they were and they jumped a mile like they were up to something. I just walked on by and headed back to the pharmacy where I decided to just sit and wait. I was surprised at how busy they were. Besides me they had a car at the drive thru and I had seen 4 other people back there looking to get prescriptions filled or one elderly person asking where they could find joint pain supplements (they must of been in pain to of been out that late at night).
By the time I left there were so many cars next to mine (guess that’s what I get when you park by one of those red things that you can get movies from) and the one next to me had their windows down and their music blaring (Bass BIG time). I was never so glad to get out of there… all I know is if I rode around with the person in the car next to me I think my head would still be pounding today!
So while I’m thankful there are 24 hour pharmacies around, I just hope I don’t have to go back there anytime soon.