For me, today was a bit of a farce in itself. I had some tasks that one would think might be simple -- go to the doctor's office because my eye seemed to be acting up, pick up some cat food, pick up a prescription. But for various reasons, any simple task I engaged in seemed to have about a thousand barriers keeping me from accomplishing. I'll take the cat food for example. As many readers may know, my cat (Jack) is obese. Not mildly chubby, not just kind of fluffy -- utterly obese. Therefore I do my best to keep him on a strict diet of just over half a cup of diet cat food per day, fed to him over the course of the day by my wonderful roommates and me. However, it is rather difficult to procure this cat food, and I don't like the idea of switching up on him briefly, so I try to carefully plan to stop by the vet the weekend before he's about to run out.
Needless to say, I didn't get around to that this time, and he needed cat food NOW. So I found a pet store near my work that has a vet in-house (which, apparently, is required for the sale of "prescription cat food"). This cat food is seriously just like all other cat foods except that it's a little harder to chew (supposed to be great for the teeth), is higher proteins, and is lower in carbs. Sigh. I am getting frustrated just re-telling this story so I will abridge.
How to buy prescription cat food in 25 steps or less
1. Call store;
2. They will tell you to fax the prescription;
3. Call your cat's vet;
4. The vet will fax the prescription;
5. Go to store;
6. They will give you a prescription card;
7. They will point you to the prescription cat food;
8. The woman might start to say to say "it's in a turquoise bag" and you will tell her "oh, yeah, I buy it all the time, thanks";
9. You could even get two bags;
10. You go to the cash register;
11. They check the prescription card;
12. You leave;
13. You get home;
14. You open the bag. It's dog food that was mixed in the with cat food and in a nearly identical bag.;
15. You look dumbly at your cat who is starving.;
16. You call the pet store;
17. The pet stores says you can exchange, no worries;
18. Your house is far from the pet store, but the pet store is on your way to your play auditions;
19. You pick up your friends from their house in Somerville, and then you drive to the pet store in north Cambridge by where you work;
20. You bring in the dog food;
21. You go get the cat food;
22. You un-pay for the dog food;
23. You pay for the cat food;
24. Eventually you get rid of the friends; (:))
25. You give your cat the cat food.
Addendum: Then you go sing your usual live-band-karaoke song.
