He Has A Very Descriptive Past
Australia, Bad Behavior, Employees, New South Wales, Pharmacy, Sydney | Working | October 14, 2019
(My dad is regaling me with stories on a drive. As we go past a chemist
Dad: “That was the chemist that used to provide your grandfather with the drugs that kept him alive for ten extra years. The main pharmacist sold the place to someone else and when the new people opened up the computer records they found all sorts of horrible comments attached to people’s files: ‘Ugly, old b****,’ ‘Impotent pin-d**k,’ ‘Nice tits on her,’ etc.”
(Fast forward ten years and I am handing in a prescription at a chemist on the other side of the city. The pharmacist looks at my name on the script and says
Pharmacist: “Oh, [My Uncommon Surname]! Did you have a grandfather that lived in [Town of the first chemist]?”
Me: “Yes, I did.”
Pharmacist: “I used to own the chemist there and saw your grandfather often. I sold that place and moved here about ten years ago.”
Me: “Oh, really, how about that…” *smiles and nods, pulls my cardigan closed, backs slowly out of the place, and makes a mental note not to go back there*