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From: sbc@sp7040.UUCP (Stephen Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Summary: not necessarily true
Message-ID: <492@sp7040.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 18:56:13 GMT
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Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT
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 >>If you have any funny stories like this let me know, I'd be
 >>interested in them.

 The one I heard, which isn't necessarily true goes as follows:

	One day Person Jones picked up a prescription at the local pharmacy.  
	After paying for the prescription, the person asked the pharmacist why
	the price seemed so high.  Upon checking, the pharmacist found that 
	he/she had charged for the brand name drug rather than the generic brand
	which was given Person Jones.  To avoid the paperwork of fixing 
	everything, the pharmacist told Person Jones that he/she would simply
	put a credit on the computer, so that the next time Person Jones needed
	a presciption, the amount would be adjusted by the credit.

	Well, the next time Person Jones visited the pharmacy, another 
	pharmacist was working.  This pharmacist quickly filled Person Jones'
	presciption and charged full price.  After inquiring of the pharmacist
	about his previous credit, the pharmacist said that the computer showed
	a previous balance of $0.00 for Person Jones.  Person Jones still 
	questioned this, and after further searching, the pharmacist found a
	not taped to the side of his terminal which read:
	    "We owe Person Jones $X."