Picking up a prescription

OK so picking up a prescription should not really be a difficult thing to do..........

............Go to the prescription counter, pick up prescription, pay, off we go, toodle pip!

Oh if only life were that easy???

I had cancer two and a half years ago so now I am on 'anti cancer' drugs for 5 years.  I have to go and pick these up every 3 months.  (Oh and while I'm on the subject of prescription drugs I may well have a rant about this at a later date - ie, people in Scotland do not have to pay for prescriptions so why do the people in England?)

Anyway my gripe isn't with the cost of prescription drugs............. It's with the inaccessibility of being able to pick them up!

Today, I finished work at 1.30pm and I had loads of stuff to do so I thought I'd just drive down to the surgery on my way home, run in quickly, and pick up my prescription.

Could I do this?  I could not!

All the lights were on in the prescription shop.  There were people in the prescription shop.  But would the door open?  It would not!

I rattled the door and a snooty member of staff yelled through the door, 'We're closed for lunch'.

So I yelled back, 'When do you re-open?'  And she said 2pm.

I had absolutely no idea that a doctors surgery's, where one picks up a prescription, actually closes for an hour for lunch???  How antiquated is that????  It's 2013 - Surely picking up a prescription for a serious illness is something that one should be able to do during normal working hours.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.........................  It makes me mad!!!!!