The Dubai Shopping Festival has started once again. I know there's all kinds of sales, etc. on at this time, but I find that people shop a lot throughout the year; it can't be that shopping increases that much more during the Shopping Festival? If so, it must hit epic proportions this next month!
So I went to my local pharmacy earlier today as I have a cold. All I wanted was cough syrup and drops, yet the new pharmacist there kept trying to paw off other medications on me. I asked if the syrup would help me sleep and he brought out sleeping pills and tried to convince me to buy them (cough syrup, cough drops and sleeping pills-- now THERE's a good combo!). Then he tried to have me buy antibiotics to help clear some supposed phlegm in my chest (this after I chose a cough syrup that would do the job). Finally he tried to have me buy multi-vitamins with calcium and when I told him I had multi-vitamins at home, he was convinced that they couldn't have Calcium in them and kept on with his sales pitch until I told him to STOP, I was not buying anything more. Had I bought what he suggested, I would have walked away with cough syrup, medicated drops, sleeping pills, antibiotics, and multi-vitamins with calcium. This on top of my asthma meds which I'd told him about. Talk about possible med OD... yikes, what was he thinking?? I was so annoyed with the 'hawking' of goods that I left as fast as I could and swore I'd never go back there again. Hopefully there's another pharmacy in my area that doesn't do that.
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