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Post by Ben Lomond on May 31, 2009 13:38:09 GMT
We did our monthly supermarket trawl the other day, and we needed to restock our medicine chest, so we included in the basket a couple of packets of paracetamol. Except that by mistake we had thrown THREE packs into the trolley, and of course at the checkout we were told that we could only purchase two x 16 tablets; not three. We didn't make a song and dance about it. We had only intended to buy two packs in the first place, but it set me thinking.
Now if I were to contemplate killing myself, I am not sure whether 32 tablets would do the trick. They would probably come close to it. But if I really wanted to use paracetamol, I would go around the same supermarket and I could in theory use a different check out girl every time, and collect in an hour enough to kill myself and the rest of my neighbourhood, with some to spare.
So who, I wondered, came up with the brilliant idea of limiting such purchases to 2 packets? And who decided that such a brilliant idea was worthy of encoding and making mandatory? And WHY was such a ludicrous idea ever followed through? I KNOW it's no big deal, and that it does not inconvenience anyone. But that is not the point. It is another petty rule, made for no apparent reason. Its objective is easily sidestepped, and it would not prevent anyone with the brains of a doormouse from buying as many tablets as he wished. So WHY do we have it.? Grrrrrrrrr!
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Post by motorist on May 31, 2009 19:46:22 GMT
I once went to get more than two because I wanted two for myself, and two for my folks who were busy that weekend. I just used two different branches of Boots. This law is silly and unenforceable
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