My rant about birth control...

I am out of town yet again. Right before I left town I stopped by Longs to pick up the refill for my birth control that I called in over the weekend. Only to find out that apparently I can't get a refill on my prescription until June 5th. Because apparently I refilled my last one on May 16 and APPARENTLY I have to have 21 days between my refills. Which for those of you who are familiar with birth control, means that I can't actually refill my birth control until I am in my inactive week. Which fucking sucks in my opinion. I am sorry, but I am a busy person and if you really expect me to remember to refill my prescription in a short 7 day period, you are fucking insane. Especially when you are closed on Sundays. So that really means I only have 6 days. And considering I have only been in town on the weekends lately that means I have 1 day to remember to refill my birth control this month. You all fucking suck ass. So this means that in the 2 days I am back in town I have to remember to go pick up my fucking birth control. But I better not forget until Sunday, because they are closed. On this note, when I was in college I used to get my birth control from our campus pharmacy and they would let us refill it 90 days at time. Which made sense because you know what college kid can remember to refill something every month. And really, it's so much better for the environment (I have to try some other sort of logic because apparently 'I can't remember' isn't a good enough excuse). Instead of 12 trips to the pharmacy, if I could refill my prescription every 90 days, that would mean only 4 trips a year...so much better for the environment! And I realize that it may be as simple as calling my doctor, or calling my insurance to ask them to do that, it still is ridiculous that they will sell me as many bottles of vodka as I want, but I can't purchase 3 months worth of birth control at a time!

On this note, a few days ago I needed to stock up on condoms. Because, as you all know, I've been getting some action lately. Because I didn't want to buy condoms from my normal grocery store (because the kind of geeky-cute checker who I have a little crush on was working), I went to another grocery store down the street from my house to buy them. It was probably about 6pm and I went into buy condoms. I also went to this store because they have those nifty self-checker things so I wouldn't even have to face the checker buying only condoms. However...ugg, I came to find out that this particular store stocks their condoms in their pharmacy, which APPARENTLY is only open until 4pm. Seriously? The first issue that is wrong with this whole thing is that if a horny teenager makes the right decision and decides to go buy condoms, but lo and behold it's 4:15 in the afternoon, they are shit out of luck because the condoms are locked up behind the gates with all of the drugs (i.e the pharmacy) which is just poor planning on someone's part in my head. The second is that who the fuck shops before 4pm in the afternoon? Housewives and old people...not exactly the biggest proportion of condom purchaser's are they? It's probably not too far out of the ballpark to say that the normal average condom purchaser probably works during the day and might possibly do their grocery shopping AFTER they get off work, is it? I mean, even those horny teenagers are in school until at least 2 or 3, right? This pisses me off. I mean if they are afraid they are going to get stolen, shouldn't they at least consider that at least they are possibly preventing the spread of disease and/or unwanted pregnancies, instead of...well...leaving those chocolate bars out in the open to be stolen...they are going to get a bunch of overweight, stressed out people...oh wait, that's kind of what most of us are anyways. See, blame it on the grocery stores who lock up the condoms after 4pm!!!

ALSO....I happen to take notice while I was trying to reach between the bars and grab some condoms trying to figure out if I should call someone and then realized that I would the girl who called someone to open the gates to get her some condoms decide what other store I should go to buy condoms that they also keep the pregnancy tests back behind the gates as well. And not just behind the gates, but behind the actual counter so you have to talk to a pharmacist to get them. Now, I wasn't looking for a pregnancy test but I thought about this for a moment. There are really only 2 reasons you would be looking for a pregnancy test, (1) you are excited at the possibility of being pregnant or (2) you are seriously hoping you ARE NOT pregnant. In the first case, I suppose you probably wouldn't mind talking to a pharmacist to get the pregnancy test. Or you might just want to get the test and get the fuck home to pee on a stick and find out if you are. But either way, if you think you are pregnant, and you are excited about it, I would imagine you would probably drive to the store as soon as you thought it was a possibility to buy a test and would super duper pissed off if they were locked up behind bars because it was 4:05pm. In the other case, where you are hoping you ARE NOT pregnant, the last thing you probably want to do is ASK something for a pregnancy test. The last thing you want is the smiling face of a pharmacy employee wishing you good luck when they hand over a pregnancy test (when all your thinking is "why don't you shove this box up your &$?*! I better not be!"). And on that note, if they are closed and you need to find out, how pissed off would you be that after stressing in your head all day at work, you show up at the store and they are locked up behind bars?

So I suppose I really didn't have a point with this post except to rant, but seriously, doesn't this just annoy any of you just a little bit? I mean, in this day and age, even though I realize there are those people out there that don't support birth control, we live during a time period and have the technology, where we, as intelligent people, have the choice to have sex for pleasure, and not risk having children (thus adding to an already overpopulated world) and not risk spreading disease (in a world already plague with so many other diseases) and yet our choice is not supported by a large chain grocery store. I guess it's all about choice, right? Which just means that I will probably choose in the future to shop somewhere else...