"Don't you know that if people could bottle the air, they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-Bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is." ~ Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon
If I was the pharmacist, i would have paid the extra $2 myself. Or if I was in line or overheard the convo I would have offered to pay (I did that once actually, though not for an inhaler!). I mean jfc.
There's a lady that works at the Walgreens I go to and I've been a dollar short a couple times. She's paid the difference out of her own pocket, and I wasn't having a medical emergency. I don't understand how the pharmacist couldn't make the same kind gesture while there was a woman wheezing on the floor.
Even of the pharmacist did not want to pay, I'm sure CVS would much rather be short a dollar or two then have a customer passed out or dead on their floor.
And from my understanding of the story, the guy offered to leave his cell phone as collateral so he could run home and get the extra $2. JFC-a cell phone for collateral?? That pharmacist was a real dick.
I know I'm probably going to get bitched at for victim blaming, but who leaves the house without an inhaler when they've been having asthma attacks for the past 3 or 4 days? I mean, denying someone in an asthma attack an inhaler is an asshole thing to do, don't get me wrong....but as someone with asthma, if I were having an asthma attack a day for DAYS prior, I'd sure as hell have my inhaler, no matter how close to home I was.
It's not victim blaming to say that the lady was stupid for leaving her house without an inhaler when she'd been having an asthma attack every day for the prior 3 - 4 days.
I agreed that it was fucked up for the CVS not to front them the $2 for the life-saving inhaler. I never said that was ok, quite the opposite.
It's not victim blaming to say that the lady was stupid for leaving her house without an inhaler when she'd been having an asthma attack every day for the prior 3 - 4 days.
It IS victim blaming when the whole point of this was not that she forgot her inhaler, but that she could have very well died because some asshole wasn't compassionate enough to come out of his own pocket/write-off charges/let her pay the outstanding amount at a later date and instead left her to wheeze all over the place over less than $2 fucking dollars.
Also, someone forgetting their inhaler does NOT make them stupid. For all you know, she might have thought she had it with her, or forgot to place it back in her purse after the last attack. People are not machines and don't always remember things even when it is detrimental to their health. Either way, it's rather moot - because if she had it with her, we wouldn't be in this comm calling the Pharm an asshole.
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~ Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon
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If I was the pharmacist, i would have paid the extra $2 myself. Or if I was in line or overheard the convo I would have offered to pay (I did that once actually, though not for an inhaler!). I mean jfc.
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I agreed that it was fucked up for the CVS not to front them the $2 for the life-saving inhaler. I never said that was ok, quite the opposite.
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It IS victim blaming when the whole point of this was not that she forgot her inhaler, but that she could have very well died because some asshole wasn't compassionate enough to come out of his own pocket/write-off charges/let her pay the outstanding amount at a later date and instead left her to wheeze all over the place over less than $2 fucking dollars.
Also, someone forgetting their inhaler does NOT make them stupid. For all you know, she might have thought she had it with her, or forgot to place it back in her purse after the last attack. People are not machines and don't always remember things even when it is detrimental to their health. Either way, it's rather moot - because if she had it with her, we wouldn't be in this comm calling the Pharm an asshole.
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