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."
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.
I think it’s the corn nuts and polysorbate-80.
Just say’in..
Though PJ is definitely not a troll, this thread needs a visit from you.
“These are not the droids you’re looking for...”
It wasn’t God, PJ, it was “James”, who took your job (and mine) in Mumbai.
It’s a good thing you posted. You can’t beeeee tooooo careful. And it was all so scarey.;)
I once held up an ATM with a soldering gun.
Seriously.
This one time at band camp...
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
Now THAT was God....
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.
Do you see a host over the sun?
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
god wants us to laugh everyday and this helped!
I wilted in the car seat for a little while.
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.
Actually, I used coupons to get almost free Hass avocados, lettuce, zucchini, etc. today.
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.
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