Pay For Pills With Cash

I have had diarrhoea since Saturday. I am sure you probably don't want to know that, but it has been going on for 5 days and that is too long and I needed to get it sorted.

I was up early, 5am. I just wake up early now a days, probably something to do with falling asleep on the couch at night, but I also just get up early now a days.

I make some coffee, of course. I intend to call my doctor when they open at 8.30am, as that is when they allocate the cancellations from the day before. Otherwise, I can't get an appointment with my doctor's practice for 2 weeks normally. I tell him, I am sure that is just great for you and your new Jaguar, but it doesn't do the rest of us any good. 

I sign into their online booking just to see if the cancellations are up on it. There is one appointment available for today, amongst the 10, or so, doctors, at 10.30am, so I take that. Of course, it is for my medical nemesis, the only doctor in the practise with whom I have had difficulties, but it is the only appointment, so what can I do?

I ride my bike to the surgery.

La Nemesis wants me to do a sample and have it tested, but I want more than that. I want drugs to fix the problem now.

I tell him I shit myself, which I had. I forgot, and thought I was just farting, and there was follow through, and it was disgusting. After that pearl of information, he gives me antibiotics, and I am much more pleased with that outcome.

I head over to the chemist to get the antibiotics and a couple of other scripts I had to get filled. 

The chemist lady gets my pill order together, with me paying, and her handing them to me, at which point she says she didn't have one of the boxes of pills and I'd need to drop in tomorrow to pick that box up.

Oh? Okay, I think, as I like her, she's got character and she's to the point, no bullshit. Besides, it'll get me out in the morning doing some exercise on my bike and I am kind of pleased about that fact, more so than I probably should be.

You know what is interesting about using cash now a days? I so often get a discount on my purchases because shops don't have the change to give to me. So, not only am I not paying bank fees, I am often getting a discount.

And it really isn't hard to get cash from an ATM. I hardly ever go to get cash specifically, I normally walk past an ATM somewhere in my travels during the week, and I just withdraw it. It really isn't difficult. We've just gotten out of that mindset.

I started specifically trying to use cash when I saw that the bakery, that I go to more often than most shops, passed on the bank charges for me to pay. And I thought, fuck that. 

Maybe I am more tightarse than most people, but it really takes no extra effort not to pay the banks any more money than is necessary.