PREGNANT WOMAN FORCED TO LIE … SELF APPOINTED NANNIES IN THE NANNY STATE
on 10/05/2009 at 07:22 AM
I lie to my Drs all the time - when it comes to pregnant & new mommies - they are the worst at peddling the Nanny State/Big Pharma line - so why should I give a damn to be honest back?
I’m in this body - have been for 54 years - I know when it feels bad or broken - and 9 times out of 10 they’ve told me - ‘Everybody gets old’ (I was 39 at the time), ‘Get a life’ (a nice ‘foreign’ doctor injecting his prejudices into my medical health), ‘It’s all in your head, the numbers came back fine’, and my favorite - ‘I know what’s best for you’ (who died and made you God?!?). So now when they attempt to shove a pill at me for every little ole thing or tell me I need to eat fake plastic food just to be healthy - I don’t buy into it. Smile and say - been there, done that - don’t like all the side effects and not interested in trading heart disease for cancer right now. But thanks anyway.
Yeah but Wardmom, imagine having to lie to some dead head clerk in a market to do your shopping. ??
This whole nanny thing has gotten way outta hand.
I remember going back many,many years ago when we lived in Franklin,TN.
There was this restaurant we used to go to and one night a waiter refused to serve a drink to a pregnant diner telling her he wouldn’t put her unborn at risk. It wasn’t like she was pie-eyed or anything. She and her husband had just been seated at the table next to ours.
She got her drink when she called the manager over. I think it was beer. Not sure now its been so long but I just recall the incident and thought then how unreasonable that jerk was. Not up to some waiter to refuse a perfectly sober lady a drink just coz she’s preggers.Especially in a setting like that.If more customers just abandoned their shopping carts at the checkout if subjected to this kind of insulting bullshit, maybe the stores would get a clue.
Then again, probably not, they seem pretty “stuck on stupid” by this point.
I like the Scottish response to any question posed to me by some nosy busy-body: “And what business is it of yours, then?”
I like the idea of abandoning the shopping cart especially when it comes to the id card nonsense when the purchaser is cleary over 18. However in the case of the cheese I am not so sure. Fair enough the sales person was in error. However the purchaser in this case was prepared to publicise the issue in the press and write a letter of complaint. I suspect had she purchased some Brie and there had been complications she is just the kind of person who would have sought legal redress. The problem here is not so much the nanny state but in my view the idiocy of ambulance chasers looking for a fast buck.
Remember, If something, God forbid, goes wrong though, who will be first in line at the chopping block when the blade drops.. They are (except for the cheese people) basically covering their asses.
All it takes is one person to buy alcohol for an underage person, and them to go out and do something stupid, then get a good assault lawyer. I know it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s reality.Just a thought…
BillI’d say the cashier trying to offer medical advice is more legally actionable against the store than selling a legal, normal, widely-sold product to someone who then suffers problems with it due to their own medical condition.
I think it most appropriate to cancel the purchase, and let the store deal with putting the items back at this point. Further, let the store owner know exactly why you chose to abandon your purchase, and why you are taking your business elsewhere. Let them feel the full pain of their employee’s hubris and stupidity.
As to ass-covering by companies: When it seems egregiously stupid to me as the customer, I can, and will take my business elsewhere. My hard-earned cash does not go to reward idiocy and bad business decisions if I can help it.
in this case was prepared to publicise the issue in the press and write a letter of complaint.
Yeah but Lyndon .... She could have been just that much PO’d to do that. Doesn’t mean she litigious tho. But seriously angry. I know I’d be. But “ambulance chasers looking for a fast buck” is still a valid point. What a world, huh.
Meanwhile, the Muslims laugh their asses off at the West....
I agree wholeheartedly - and I’d told that salesperson to show me her medical degree. Leave the store and tell them why. I’ve taken to sending letters to corporate headquarters - actually my first one was way back in 1973 with a pos buick my mother forced on me. Most recent to Krogers for their in-your-face Bought and Paid for by the Union signs - this area has horrible un-employment due to the stranglehold the local unions have - they aren’t getting my $s anymore. I’m no longer putting up with the stupidity, rudeness and worthless products - you won’t get my money.
So I’m spending more money to travel a bit farther and getting what I want from people who don’t act like I’m a homeless person looking for a place to flop.
Now if I could just figure out how to avoid the Drs office and/or figure out an un-emotional way to tell them to f’off - I’ll be ok.
10/05/2009 at 08:02 AM
10/05/2009 at 11:16 AM
