Fucking Tweekers

The SLF and I recently visited our “friendly” fuckers at Wal-Mart to buy some allergy medicine. This event happened at 6:00 pm on a Sunday. In the aisle featuring all good things that mask allergy symptoms, we found disclaimers instead of products. Essentially, the disclaimers said that we must ask the pharmacist for these non-prescription items. The trouble was, the pharmacy closed at 6:00pm. We asked for a manager to ask why we could not purchase a non-prescription medication to complete our wonderful one stop shopping experience. He informed us that Iowa law prohibits selling allergy medication beyond a certain time. When we asked if Wal-Mart was going to extend the hours of the pharmacy to better serve the customers, he advised no. In retrospect, I guess we were a little hard on the fuckface, as he really was the messenger and we were just looking for yet another reason not to shop at the Smiley Store.

Here’s the Iowa law, in case your thinking about cooking up a batch:
Under new SF 169:
o Licensed pharmacists may dispense, on a nonprescription basis, products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine, as the sole ingredient or in combination with any other ingredient, pursuant to rules currently being developed by the Board. An individual may not purchase from a pharmacy more than 7500 mg. of these substances during a 30-day period.
o Purchasers must be at least 18 years of age and, if they are unknown to you, must show a photo ID. Purchases must be logged. Pharmacies are not required to disclose the contents of a dispensing log to law enforcement officials unless the log is the subject of a court order or subpoena.
o Larger amounts of pseudoephedrine may be dispensed by pharmacies for legitimate medical purposes pursuant to a prescription issued by an authorized prescriber.
o Retail (non-pharmacy) outlets may sell only limited amounts of select pseudoephedrine products in controlled settings. Retailer sales are limited to one package of liquid or liquid-filled gel caps containing no more than 360 milligrams of pseudoephedrine to a single purchaser in a 24-hour period, and no more than 7.5 grams of pseudoephedrine from a pharmacy or retailer, separately or collectively, in a 30-day period. Retailers shall NOT stock or sell any non-liquid pseudoephedrine products or any products containing ephedrine or phenylpropanolamine.
o Retailers must keep liquid and liquid-filled gel cap pseudoephedrine products behind a counter inaccessible to the public or in a locked case, shall require a government-issued photo ID, and shall maintain for 12 months a pseudoephedrine purchase log including the purchaser's name, address, and signature.
o A pharmacy may elect to keep ALL pseudoephedrine products in the pharmacy and dispense the liquid or liquid-filled gel cap products in compliance with requirements and limitations for dispensing Schedule V pseudoephedrine products.

Jesus Christ, is there really an army of tweekers out there gobbling up allergy medications (even infant formulas) for their own recreational usage? Since these dipshits are up all night, can’t they just as easily drive to a neighboring state and purchase the ingredients there? A friend who’s a pharmacist foreshadowed this inconvenience by purchasing some extra pseudoephedrine products prior to the law, but I had no idea this shit was now as heavily monitored as heroin. Can I now purchase smack at the Wal-Mart pharmacy just as long as there’s a pharmacist on duty? Twenty bucks says the meth problem continues to rise even after SF 169 has been around for a while. Fucking tweekers. They always manage to throw a wrench into people’s business.
In the “good idea” department:
• A friend and I think it would be a good idea for me to throw a pair of men’s underwear on stage at a Judas Priest concert. You know: show Rob Halford a little love.
• I’m thinking about commissioning some art from a guy at work. Apparently, he will, for a modest fee, create a work of art from photographs. Many people are using him to create artwork containing images of deceased family members. This way, a family member who’s dead can be combined with those that are living. My goal is to have him make an image of Dale Earnhardt and Jesus Christ. Kind of taking the whole halo above the number three thing to the next level.

This is just a few examples of how my mind operates. Another example is to get off line for fear that the Man will see this post, check the time of the posting, and then conclude I’m cooking meth down in the basement.