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Drive-Thru Blues
August 10, 2020
Down on the Corner : Drive-Thru Blues
Let us now praise small gifts. Children laughing. Coffee in the morning. Homemade cookies and, the drive-thru window.
Next to penicillin, the drive-thru window is the best thing about drug stores today. The drive-thru has relieved us of the burden of having to go, you know, inside the store to pick up your prescription for your hypertension which might not be a problem if, you know, you just got more exercise. Then there’s the inevitable wandering before you get to the actual pharmacy part of the pharmacy store; stopping at the sunglasses display to give it a whirl or two before deciding all the glasses are cheap junk and besides why are you looking for sunglasses off a rack when you wear prescription bifocals? On to the battery case where you spend five minutes trying to remember which size battery you’re looking for before realizing you don’t need batteries.
Finally, you stumble upon the pharmacy, actually the long line leading to the pharmacy. Standing in line you amuse yourself by scanning the magazine rack and wonder how it is you’ve never seen a copy of “Sedentary Magazine “ before? Sounds like something you might enjoy sitting down to read sometime.
But I digress. It’s the drive-thru, a godsend, that spares us of all this wasted time. Zip in, identity yourself, grab the blood pressure meds and you’re on your way. Life is made better, until recently. Like everything else, the drug store drive-thru has been co-opted by COVID.
Testing, that is. To be clear, drive-thru Covid-19 testing is another godsend and should be more widely available than it is but it’s sure taken the ease out of the drive-thru experience. The lines at the drive-thru can often be long and slow, for good reason. I just miss the good old days.
And it’s not just drug store drive-throughs that have been COVID compromised. Banks, Dunkin’ Donuts, fast food restaurants, all have ungodly lines now.No one, for obvious reasons, wishes to get out of the cars anymore for anything, to wander around a store, reading labels, comparing prices or just getting a little exercise. Remember exercise?
I think I’ll subscribe to that magazine I saw at the store at that time. The one with the leather recliner on the cover. “Sedentary.”
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