Remember toward the end of the month last month, when I wasn't feeling my healthy usual self? Well, the worst of it went away, but since then I've been feeling a bit congested in my lungs, having sneezing fits, and having to use my inhaler quite frequently. Yesterday family members urged me to go to go to a new little urgent care thing...located in the grocery store, at the end of aisle 22 (which happens to be close to the freezer section).
I got there late in the afternoon because I dragged my feet all morning. This place closes at 4:00 PM on Sundays. I got there about 3:30 PM, and signed my name on the list of people waiting to be seen. I was the only one there. I took a seat in the tiny little waiting area and waited for the Nurse Practitioner to come out of the one exam room they have so she could examine me, prescribe some drugs, and send me on my way. I didn't think it would take long because the sign on the wall said it wouldn't:
The sign lied. I sat for some time in that tiny room while shoppers whisked by with their carts, some stopping near the entry to the waiting area long enough to remark to their significant other or friend about what kind of things they might do in this urgent care office next to the pharmacy at Kroger:
"Oh, I wonder if they do AIDS tests here, too?" was the best remark I heard. Another lady walked by and remarked to her husband about the name of the NP on the door, and how she had worked with her and had wondered where she had gone when she left wherever it was that they worked. She also said she'd wait to say hello to her if it wasn't already after 4:00 and they were closed. After 4:00?!
No signs of the NP the whole time I'd been sitting there for over 45 minutes. I should have gotten up and left at some point, it was sort of boring sitting there that long. There weren't any magazines in the waiting area like they have in a doctor's office. But fortunately for me I found the plexiglass panel in the exam room door mesmerizing, and I hadn't even been given any drugs yet:
Finally, out walked two young ladies and then the Nurse Practitioner. She smiled and said to me, "Oh my, it's after 4:00! We close at 4:00."
"Yes, I realize that. But I've been waiting here for over 45 minutes." She stepped over to the sign-in sheet to check my story.
"Oh, I see! Well, come on in, I'll take you. Let me just turn off the light out here so no one else straggles in..." Straggle, lady? I've been here for almost a half an hour before closing time. 5 minutes before closing time is straggling. Almost 30 minutes is enough before closing time to not be considered straggling.
She was thorough in her exam. So thorough that she wanted to check my lungs for pneumonia by tapping on my chest, back and front. This required me to disrobe down to my underwear from the waist up. So, as she starts tapping after I'd stripped I started laughing.
"What's funny?" She asked.
"Oh, I was just thinking I'd never been half naked at the end of Aisle 22 at the grocery store before." She chuckled politely.
She really took her time asking me questions and checking nearly every hole in my head for signs of infection. Ultimately she came to the conclusion that I'm suffering from some heavy duty allergies, wrote me some prescriptions for oral and nasal steroids and I was finally on my way.
What is the strangest thing you've ever seen at the grocery store? 
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I've not seen that, but that would DEFINITELY be the strangest!
HA naked in the grocery store...
Nope never had that happen.
I have on two seperate occasions had men chace me down a grocery store isle singing Angie by the rolling stones... You woulthink they could be a little more original... I think in my life time I have been serinaded with that song more then a dozen times...IT ISN"T EVEN A HAPPY SONG!
Ben... has never done that, maybe that's why I married him? ;-b
haha...I came from Angi's to see your door....funny story, and I got more information about Ang too... I must need to find a new grocery nothing funny ever happens at ours :sswhimper:
I did a post on the strange lady I saw quite a while back but can't find it now. She's there from time to time. She's maybe 55 or so years old. Wears flip flops and a longish hanes underwear t-shirt only. She ties a string around the middle of the t-shirt so it's more like a dress. She wears this regardless of temperature, so even on cold days. She uses the top half of her t-shirt along with her ample rack as a shopping cart, and then puts the groceries back there when she's checked out rather than use bags. She'll have like, half a gallon of milk, a pound of ground beef, bag of rice, box of batteries, and so on, hanging out of the top of her t-shirt dress.
@beli_grrl - Ha ha ha! I remember that post! Yeah, that is certainly strange!! :ssgoofy:
I am definately going to start looking closer at the end of the aisles. My daughter and I always chuckle at the fashion emergencies we see while shopping!
weell my dear then you have never been to the stores forzen section with me at 2 am when I am feeling odd and need a boost..ahah I put my boobies on the glass and leave the prints for the rest of the world to see HAHAHAH..sorry your feeling shitty..did she tell you botu MUCCINEX????? that stuff is awesome.........
I gotta say, I didn't think a clinic in the grocery store was likely. We have them in our pharmacies (some of them); and that makes sense to me.
well since i have been working in a grocery store for the last 10 years....i have stories...maybe ill post one soon....
I guess when I sited Elvis.lol I couldn't pass that up.
I like the leaves in the door.
Which nasal steroids did you get? Will it make your nose like Hanz & Franz? I got some too, didn't do that for my nose.
Allergies! That seems to be the catch-all these days.
A friend and I saw JFKJr at Publix in Palm Beach . . . by the rag mags, of all places. I kept walking along the front area looking for my friend, all along wondering who the hell this dude w/no neck in dark navy suit is . . . and then BAM! it hit. He was in town during his cousin's alleged rape trials.
Now, this friend is one of the most composed, professional persons one'll ever meet; not much rattles her. When I finally spotted her, sitting way up front waiting for me, I motioned to her to look in his direction. She went bonkers. She just didn't know what to do w/herself. She stopped an elderly gentleman walking by her, just grabbed him by the upper arm, and said to him "look! that's John Jr.!" He looked at her, perplexed and asked "who? is he important? where?" I could tell she was in disbelief of and annoyed with his ignorance. Her combined reactions were funner to watch than spotting him.
@AcidSam - I hope it doesn't do that to my nose! LOL :sswink: OMG! I'd have freaked out too if I had seen JFK Jr! I was totally crushed when his plane went down. :ssboohoo: No one would have thought anything of the Piratesse freaking out over it...or if they do I pay them no nevermind.:ssgoofywink:
I saw a ton of kids run through a grocery store once. It was odd.
Once saw a poorly resolved conflict involving a lesbian love triangle. They never should have been standing near the mayonnaise. "Clean-up in Aisle 4". Yeah buddy, it's gonna take a lot more than that mop.:ssbigfrown:
Hi just popped over from Angi site she is my daughter...Yes we have a clinic at our local groucery store in town also I have never had to go there but nice to know there is a place if I need one.. Well good luck and hope your feeling better really soon...Marty
half naked to check for allergies? and i thought oklahomans were messed up :D
@martysrose - Thank you! It is nice to know it's there, but I think I'll only go there again as a last resort. It was expensive, and a long wait. Still, it was a Sunday, and it was less expensive than an ER (not that I would have done that, but you know what I mean)!
Ai. Never a urgent care, that's for sure. I never understand the toys between the registers and the out doors. What sane parent, after having survived grocering with kids, is going to stop to pick out a toy that has to be drug back to the registers and paid for?
Oh that's awesome! Well, this story and how you're almost related to Britney. I :sslove: Britney. Whilest everyone was all in her beezwax, I kept telling people to just leave her alone.
But I've never seen anything interesting and unusual at the grocery store. I've always wondered about those small urgent care places... next time, I may give it a whirl!
RYC: And I totally agree. Some mental disorders are greatly helped with medication, but sometimes a bit too much is a bit too much. I hope doctors and researchers can find the right amount to make someone function better than before :)
We only have 2 grocery stores. Both of them don't have much of anything. Not even groceries.:ssalien:
I am used to it now but when I moved to this part of the country it totally freaked me out. Most older Xhosa woman keep their money in their bra so women keep digging into thier bras to pay for their groceries. Then the cashier gives the same money back to you. I am used to it now though
I have seen a man humping a shelf...yup...that was the worst.
I haven't really seen anything seriously weird in a grocery store. I feel sort of left out now. LoL