One Pharmacist's View

Growing up in Centrahoma for my first 8 years was quite an experience. Centrahoma was small and working on getting more so. Our school didn’t have a gym, so our varsity teams played on a dirt court. Yes, that worked OK if it didn’t rain or something.

My own personal experiences riding passenger trains as a child were exciting. But as it was, I was more a watcher than rider. One hot July day in a cotton patch near Lula as the “Streamliner” zipped past. My Uncle J C and my brother Gerald stopped their work chopping cotton and leaned on their hoes.

“Customer Service” - the belief that every person walking in through the door of the store needs to be treated as vital to the financial life blood of that business. When did it become “Customer To Be Tolerated Or Ignored?”Why have customers seemingly become a nuisance to many businesses?

They said Sam was a dependable, reliable person. He was a man who took care of his family. He went to church on Sundays and enjoyed his job, working on a big aircraft carrier being constructed at the Fore River shipyard Massachusetts.

I probably should write more often about Allen’s rich history in Oklahoma. Last week I mentioned Allen’s role in the Green Corn Rebellion back in 1917. This rebellion fizzled out before it really got started after action taken by Pontotoc County sheriff Bob Duncan and 10 deputies.

We just observed Memorial Day — a time we honor all veterans who served our nation. In many cases these men and women paid with their lives to preserve something we Americans have always held dear. Freedom.

It’s been decades since I’ve given this old customer of mine from long ago much thought. After all, he’s been dead 40 years. But I remember him well. One day he called in his prescription refill and I asked him if he would be in to pick it up. He said, “I would like you to bring it to me.

I was watching TV last week and saw that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority had decided to sort of back off doing much of anything for the time being. This was obviously a result of the “hornets’ nest” the authority stirred up with their proposed expansion of the Kickapoo.

I should have written American history. You know, the kind that tells how things were a long time ago, in America. Not much was recorded then and that is the beauty of it. I could say anything I want to. Who’s to know?

I like to watch old movies. Pat and I watched the 1978 production of “Grease” this past week. Paramount spent $6 million on this movie and made all their money back on the first weekend it was released.