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- From: jpp@StarConn.com (John Pettitt)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: Kahn's Corner Pharmacy - AVOID IT!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.050001.10817@StarConn.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 05:00:01 GMT
- References: <root.721025447@rigel> <1992Nov7.231204.10802@StarConn.com> <root.721270436@rigel>
- Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA 415-949-3133
- Lines: 42
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- root@rigel.IntelliCorp.COM (The Lord of the files) writes:
- >>>Today I had the unpleasant experience of attempting to have a
- >>>prescription filled at
-
- To which I said amongst other things:
-
- >>I would be interested to know what the scrip was for and how you were
- >>dressed at the time (just being nosey :-).
-
- To which s/he/it (say with a southern accent :-) said:
-
- >WHAT WAS I WEARING!!! Oh, that must be it. I did fail to check the
- >dress code before entering the Kahn's Pharmacy. Let's see what else
- >could they need to know? How about my gender and race? What about
- >national origin? How about whether or not I believe in purgatory or
- >a christian god? I suppose that my HIV status is important as is the
- >color of my underwear. Are these criteria imposed all throughout
- >Los Altos? No. They never ask anything like this when I pay my
- >taxes. This must be an anomaly specific to Kahn's...
-
- I would have thought that serving anybody who called themselves the
- `Lord of the files' in a conservative place like Los Altos would cause
- problems :-). However note the :-) in my post - for the humor imparied
- this denotes sarcasm or some attempt at humor.
-
- >Did they ask you to show a picture ID? What were you wearing?
-
- No and Jeans/T Shirt/Birkenstocks - standard techie stuff. It seems
- to me that nobody I know in Los Altos has a had a problem with them
- except you. The simplest explanation that fits the facts is that you
- look odd or did/said somthing to cause them to view you as weird. :-)
-
- Los Altos is rather closer to the mid west in its outlook than say
- Berkeley but even so I can't believe they just picked on you for no
- reason.
-
- Note the :-) before flaming.
- --
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