Jake Stapleton

I am sick of all this GREEN stuff. 

I couldn’t even enjoy a good Holmes on Homes (a truly manly man’s show where you can wear overalls with no shirt) without every other commercial on Discovery Home telling me to fight global warming (which I don’t believe in). 

I now suddenly have the urge to trade in the new Camry for a Hummer, stock pile incandescent light bulbs, and run electric cars off of the road.   

I think my work is done here, now to try this non-snot controlling medicine and go to bed.

As some of you may remember a few posts back I lamented at how Zyrtec-D has gone OTC.  Since it has pseudoephedrine in it I have to be treated like a criminal to buy it.  Jess & I take 2 Zyrtec-D a day each and I have been purchasing a box about every week and a half for both of us to share.  Jess has obviously not been up to walking in stores since Zyrtec-D went OTC.

Move forward to today, I am sick and almost out of Zyrtec-D which is the only thing that has been drying me up.  So I get dressed, risk life and limb (up hill both directions; against the earth’s rotation), and head out this evening to get some along with other essentials at Wal-Mart.  I go up to the pharmacy counter (license in hand because I now know the criminal routine) and try to make my purchase.  At this point I am informed that I may not make another Zyrtec-D Purchase until March 11th.  Apparently I have reached my quota!  This really really made me mad!  I was nice and did not take it out on the poor pharmacy tech, but I am still stewing! 

So Monday I am going to call my family doc and see if I can start trying other allergy/sinus medication.  Something that is not OTC!  Sure I could run around to 15 different stores and try to beat the system but I just do not have time to do that.  All I want is my snot to be controlled.

So to all those people out there who have found an illicit use for pseudoephedrine may I say congratulations.  Your misuse of a legal medical compound has now inconvenienced yet another person who just really wanted to have their snot managed.  May I suggest that you get a job and find other highs in life that may be just as rewarding as your illicit uses for pseudoephedrine. 

You could seek the Lord, Church doors are always open.  You could seek help from friends or family members who could help you beat your addiction.  Or in some cases you could just get a job and stop stealing to support your habits.  So before you continue down this path of death, destruction, and loose snot everywhere, I say change your ways.

You may say, "Jake that’s a little harsh", and I say my head is full of snot, I have a fever of 101, and one of those situations could be under control right now if some people could have found better things to do with their time!

As some of you may know my allergy medicine Zytec-D went OTC. When I went to purchase it on Sunday I had to fork over my license and be logged into a database. My old prescription called for me to take 2 Zyrtec a day which most of the time I do. So I was informed by the nice lady at the pharmacy that I can by one box a week. The box contains 24 tablets that is a 12 day supply if I take 2 a day. So in theory I will need to by 3 boxes a month. Now according to the link below this can land me in Jail! I know that meth is really big problem but give me a break! There has got to be a better way to handle this instead of making law abiding allergy suffers be logged into a database like a criminal. So if I call you for bail money because of my allergy habit please oblige with a little green to get me out. Thanks

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