Alternate Universe

 New year, new insurance card. Different company. A big pain in my a$$. Following the instructions that accompanied the card to register, I went to the site and did just that. This is when I looked over at the reclining man and told him to register his card. He didn't. He likes to wait until the last second to do things.

So, given his tendency to procrastinate, I reminded him. I didn't say, "did you register the Caremark card yet?", but I would ask if he had gotten the email that says, "welcome to Caremark". Then he would ask what I was talking about and I would have to explain it again. No surprises here, it is a pattern. I COULD have done it for him, but I occasionally dig my heels in and make him take care of his own business.

The stove delivery scheduled for today was canceled, due to "truck problems". It has yet to be rescheduled. We had a storm last night and it rained pretty hard all morning. I figured they didn't want to get wet, or at least the truck had issues with the wet stuff. The rained eased up and I said to the man in the recliner that we needed to go to Ingles to have our prescriptions transferred. You get double points that go towards your gas, so .....

I told him again after he asked what I had said and I repeated myself. Then I asked if he had registered his new card. "Huh?" I raised my voice and put myself on repeat. ("You don't have to holler"). He then sighed and got his laptop out to begin.

Before he could ask I told him to just follow the directions provided and went to run a brush through my hair and get my shoes. "It won't do anything." I went to his side and asked if had filled in all the info and when he said yes I told him to hit continue. He was right, it did not go forward. I told him to hit that flashing "back" button to see what he had forgotten. I am assuming he completed this task and we headed out.

I presented an empty bottle that needed a refill and requested that she transfer all of my prescriptions. She looked dumbstruck. I pulled up my reserve of patience and explained that we had new insurance cards with a different company and I needed to transfer all of my prescriptions. Then she asked "from where". I rolled my eyes inwardly and told her "Walmart" and didn't add that the information she needed was right there in her hand. She walked away and then came back and asked for my name, address, birthdate, etc. She wrote all this down on a form for transferring presciptions. Then she went to the computer and exclaimed, "You are already in our system!"

I knew that, I picked up pain pills there after my oral surgery (and wished I had one to help me deal with her). I told her that I knew I was, but the new insurance needed to be input. Then she told me "You have Humana." I told her that was old and the card I gave her was new. Then she asked what other prescriptions I wanted to transfer and I said my entire profile. "We have to have the names of the drugs because they will want to know that." Thank all that is good in the world, another tech came and sent Clueless to the cash register to accept payments for people picking up. She input the new card, called the transfer in and filled the Omeprazole in a manner of minutes.

I supose it was worth all the aggravation, because my copay was ZERO! On the way home, HeWho was driving my car and we were sitting relatively close to each other, no radio on. I saw a banner on the Dollar General that prclaimed their prices to be even lower. I said, 'I wonder how their prices can be lower, as everything seems to be going up in price." Not really a question, more of an observation. HeWho answers, "Minimum wage."

So I told him he must have thought I said something else, given his answer. So, I spoke slowy and distinctly and repeated what I had said and once again he said "minimum wage". Am I in an alternate universe?