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God Communicated With Me Via an ATM Machine
Self | September 15, 2010 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 09/15/2010 5:54:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Okay, first off I admit that I feel like a complete jerk for posting this thread...but I had to.

What happened is that a little after 7 P.M. tonight something happened during an ATM transaction involving $40 of my deposit being jammed into the ATM deposit slot mechanism. That very briefly is what happened but it was the circumstances surrounding and involving the transaction (and the charge it was meant to cover) that was so bizarre. To make a very long story short, I soon afterwards had a message flash in my head (which I admit could have been the result of a hyperactive imagination) that I had to post a thread of this exact title on the FR. Of course, I immediately rejected that idea. Unfortunately the next thought was that I BETTER post this thread. So here it is. I am posting this primarily because I don't later want to post a thread titled something like, "God Gave Me a Heart Attack Because I Refused to post the thread titled, "God Communicated With Me Via an ATM Machine."


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: atmmachine; awsomethread; coolthread; crap; doublerainbow; dumb; god; mostinspiringthread; strangethread; stupid; waste
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To: PJ-Comix; nutmeg; Judith Anne
I've been looking for the perfect thread to post my story all day! Lo and behold, this is it...

Made an appointment to get my flu shot this year at the local pharmacy. It's closer than my doctor's office and actually any other location. At the drug store, the flu shot costs $29.95 and the pharmacist is the designated person to give the injection.

After I filled out the paperwork, the pharmacist brought out a little plastic bag containing a syringe, gloves, alcohol swabs, cotton ball, etc. and the vaccine vial in a little blue plastic basket. The little blue basket had a 3-inch blue paper star with "64" written on it to match the 63 other goofy stars plastered on the wall for their silly "Flu Shot Wall of Fame."

Childish, I thought. The numbered paper stars were lined way up at the ceiling level, so I idly wondered what they used to plaster each little paper star too high on the wall to reach from the floor.

Making conversation, I casually asked the pharmacist how long she had been giving injections.

"This is our first year," she said.

"I'm an RN," I replied with a smile.

"You are making me nervous," she said.

I chuckled, "Not to worry."

Warily, I watched as the pharmacist went through the motions of drawing up the vaccine into the syringe, with the almost-empty vaccine bottle standing upright on the table. Next, she tapped the syringe to dislodge air bubbles.

Not seeing any air bubbles, she was satisfied, and asked me which arm. I replied, "Are you sure there is vaccine in that syringe?" She said, "Yes."

I put my sleeve back over my arm, and said, "May I?," as I took the syringe from her hand. I pushed the syringe plunger to empty...expelling nothing but air. The pharmacist had not drawn one single drop of vaccine into the syringe.

The pharmacist stammered about receiving a brief inservice education for administering injections. Gently, I showed her how to properly draw up liquid from a vial into a syringe. She was embarrassed, and asked me not to tell anybody. Eeeesh!

Next time you hear somebody say they got the flu after getting a flu shot...remember this story. Yes, I called the pharmacy HQ and told them their vaccine administration education for pharmacists was insufficient.

61 posted on 09/15/2010 6:46:08 PM PDT by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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To: PJ-Comix

I think it’s the corn nuts and polysorbate-80.

Just say’in..


62 posted on 09/15/2010 7:00:46 PM PDT by lunarville (Common sense ain't so common anymore...)
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To: Allegra

Though PJ is definitely not a troll, this thread needs a visit from you.


63 posted on 09/15/2010 7:00:59 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: PJ-Comix

“These are not the droids you’re looking for...”


64 posted on 09/15/2010 7:02:35 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: PJ-Comix

It wasn’t God, PJ, it was “James”, who took your job (and mine) in Mumbai.


65 posted on 09/15/2010 7:03:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: PJ-Comix

It’s a good thing you posted. You can’t beeeee tooooo careful. And it was all so scarey.;)


66 posted on 09/15/2010 7:03:40 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Larry Lucido

I once held up an ATM with a soldering gun.


67 posted on 09/15/2010 7:04:06 PM PDT by lunarville (Common sense ain't so common anymore...)
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To: PJ-Comix
Did God also mention you are overdrafted?

Seriously.

68 posted on 09/15/2010 7:04:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: PJ-Comix

This one time at band camp...


69 posted on 09/15/2010 7:08:48 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: PJ-Comix
“On the positive side I wasn't asked to post something like ‘I Communicated With God Via a Grilled Cheese Sandwich.’”

Well,I believe you have definitely found the “silver lining” to this cloud... ;)

My church says we're not really supposed to look for signs, since they're too easy for others to misuse, but I can see why you decided to post this. I don't believe I've ever seen you do a ‘nutcase’ post before, so I'm just going to ask you to have your wife do a stroke test on you.

http://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20030213/got-minute-you-could-diagnose-stroke

OS

70 posted on 09/15/2010 7:08:56 PM PDT by Old Student
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To: PJ-Comix
I was with my granddaughter - stopped at a red light (years ago) - and ‘knew’ I should just sit there when the light turned green. So I sat there. A car pulled into the intersection and everything was fine - then another car pulled into the intersection and - crash - a three car accident that we would have been part of... Never got that ‘feeling’ again - but I'm glad I listened...
71 posted on 09/15/2010 7:10:42 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: GOPJ

Now THAT was God....


72 posted on 09/15/2010 7:17:58 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Ve'al kulam eloha s'lichot, s'lach lanu, m'chal lanu, kaper lanu.)
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To: PJ-Comix

You know you need to look for coupons for fruits and vegetables. One can’t live on lean cuisine, cheddar poppers and chicken wings and stay sane.

It was the chicken wings speaking to you. Don’t listen to them. They’re chicken wings.


73 posted on 09/15/2010 7:18:41 PM PDT by listenhillary (A 50% cut of federal spending would be a good place to start.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Do you see a host over the sun?


74 posted on 09/15/2010 7:19:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: PJ-Comix

seriously dude- that kind of anxiety is a symptom of a medical condition related to heart and possibly arteries

you’re not going crazy- your body is telling you to go get a checkup

It could have been anything at all- a sideways glance from a stranger, a wet newspaper, the toilet overflows accompanies a sudden rush of anxiety (the rush actually comes first THEN the some strange anxiety over whatever happens to be in front of you)

Could be a clog or some thing. Get a checkup.

PS Loved the comix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


75 posted on 09/15/2010 7:23:03 PM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: RummyChick

god wants us to laugh everyday and this helped!


76 posted on 09/15/2010 7:35:41 PM PDT by cleverscreenname
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To: GOPJ
Very similar story--arrived home from work one afternoon, pulled into the driveway. It was raining. The voice clearly said, "Don't get out of the car yet." Took my hand off the door handle. Next moment a tremendous flash of lightning all around, immediate and deafening crash of thunder, setting off car alarms in the area.

I wilted in the car seat for a little while.

77 posted on 09/15/2010 7:43:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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To: PJ-Comix

Forty is a biblical number that is associated with a period of testing:

http://belovedheart.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/the-significance-of-the-number-40-in-the-bible

Ez 36 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.


78 posted on 09/15/2010 7:45:14 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: listenhillary
You know you need to look for coupons for fruits and vegetables. One can’t live on lean cuisine, cheddar poppers and chicken wings and stay sane.

Actually, I used coupons to get almost free Hass avocados, lettuce, zucchini, etc. today.

79 posted on 09/15/2010 7:46:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Taking it to the next level with coupons)
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To: Raycpa
Forty is a biblical number that is associated with a period of testing:

Hmmm... I hadn't thought of that aspect. I tossed 8 20 dollar bills into the deposit slot box and then it took minutes before it would open up again. Then the screen flashed that no cash deposits would be accepted and I grabbed a bunch of 20s which were jammed inside. The box slot closed and when I counted my money, only 6 20s were back. The other two must have been been jammed inside. Anyway, I hadn't thought about the significance of 40 until you mentioned it.

80 posted on 09/15/2010 7:51:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Taking it to the next level with coupons)
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