Phactory Of Phear

CP: I know it's early yet, but I was on hold with CVS and Walgreens last week. . .

Uber-Tech: Are you still on hold with them?

CP: Some days it feels that way. Anyway, it got me thinking.

UT: Well there isn't much else you can do while on those interminable holds.

CP: Be nice. It's not their phault the Powers-That-Be only give them enough staff to answer one call at a time.

UT: Right. Drop off, pick up, drive-thru, data entry, counting, 10 phone lines. . . itty bitty personnel scheduled.

CP: Sounds like Jafar's fate in Aladdin. 

UT: Sorry. As you were saying.

CP: As I was thinking, though you already did a good job making my point, I thought we could make a House of Horrors for Halloween.

UT: It's already scary enough here every day.

CP: True. We'd call it the Pharmacy Phactory of Phear. Lines of Q-Tips and Cue Balls snaking slowly through the queue, arms raised, moaning "flu shots. . . we want flu shots. . . HD flu shots. . . shaaaahhhhhhhhhtssss". 

UT: That is truly horrifying.

CP: Now imagine hearing nothing but the hold music for Walgreens and CVS. We could record the pharmacy staff trying to contact these pharmacies and screaming as they get phrustrated.

UT: Haunting, on all fronts. 

CP: That's the stuff of which nightmares are made.