Going for a perscription recently, in a supermarket, I was told I could not get it because the computer was down - but surely there were manual ways of issuing the prescription which luckily wasn't life-threatening.
No said the chemist, it has to be recorded on the computer when we issue it. Madness!
I remember when we had bits of paper to write on, or diaries to record things into - and they were very efficient - and you could always open the pages!
Also, recently, I found a young German man wandering around lost outside my workplace. He asked me where the police station was and explained that a gang of lads had pinched his luggage.
I took him around to Market Street police station, informed the duty officer what had transpired, wished the lad luck and left them to it.
The next evening I revisted the police station to see what the outcome had been. The policewoman on the desk asked what the German lad's name was and I said I did not know it, but gave her the exact time I brought him into the station.
She disappeared and then reappeared saying that without his name she could not look for it on the computer, even though I had the exact time of him attending the station. Surely there wasn't many robbed Germans appearing at the police station that day.
What happened to the diary where everything was written down, you simply turned to the date in question and bobbie's your uncle! Maybe the old fashioned diary is more efficient than the computer (or is it just the people involved not being prepared to go that extra step?).
Oh, for the good old days!
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