The last few weeks have been filled with insomnia and I've slept on average 5 hours a night. I have no idea why.
I work full time, I've to look after a SEN child on my own who has been off schools lots with snow and strikes this week. I had an appointment 40 miles away this morning in the snow which had me riddled with anxiety and I hadn't ate all morning.
Appointment went swimmingly, by my surprise and I made it back without crashing the car!
Then came collecting my prescription which you would think would be the easiest task of the day!
Call in, say I will be back in 15 mins or so while they sort. Back in 15 mins and its still not ready.
10 more minutes and I enquire again. Still not ready. 5 mins later another staff member asks if I am OK, I say I'm waiting on a script then give my name and she carries on gossiping behind the till.
Group of around 4 workers standing around chatting and on their phones and another 10 mins goes in, people in after me have been and gone. I am getting rather hot and sweaty (I have multiple layers on for the weather but the store is roasting). I start shaking and realise I am absolutely starving and getting light headed so I sit down.
More people start queuing so the staff members are getting busier. Before they proceed on the queue, I go over and ask one of them to please check on my script and ask how long it'll be.
Cue an old lady in the queue who walked in 30 seconds ago starting on me, telling me to get to the end of the queue (there was about 8 people at this stage and it is not all the same queue - its separate if you're waiting for scripts)
Staff member locates my script and it was sitting there the WHOLE TIME, they just didnt look hard enough.
I completely lost it. The woman lagging me in the queue. I informed her I wasnt in such a queue (they were all paying for items) and that I was already getting seen to, waiting well over half an hour and I wasnt about to join a queue of people paying for items which would have taken another 10+ mins. I told her to keep her nose out of my business and if I did anything wrong, it was up to the staff member to tell me to "get in the queue", not her (even though the queue is not for waiting for prescriptions).
I was handed my prescription, no apology, nothing.
I am going to change my chemist on Tuesday when at the GP and I probably realise my outburst was unreasonable but honestly is it so much to ask for people to keep their mouths shut and show a little bit of compassion when you have no idea on the day or week they've been having.
I wouldnt bat an eyelid if roles were reversed but I think some people just like to cause drama for no good reason.