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Hartmann Sep 14, 2009 11:46 am

The laws regarding things like Sudafed, Claritin-D, etc. are absolutely ridiculous. I went to Target yesterday to get Claritin-D as mine and my wife's allergies are starting to pickup again. I went straight to the pharmacy counter and expected to buy a bottle of at least 24 tablets. Nope. You can now only buy 15 tablets at a time. That's right, if you and your significant other have allergies, you will be buying Claritin-D once a week. :rolleyes:

The pharmacist told me "you can come back tomorrow to get more"... I wanted to scream "why can't I just buy it now!?" but instead offered, "no, I'd rather not get put on a government watch list as a possible meth producer".

sdm1130 Sep 14, 2009 11:48 am

I haven't been on a CO aircraft in over 2 months and I still have a little over 3 weeks before my new CO flight. In the mean time, I've given (or will give) business to NW, DL, KE, TG, SQ, US and UA.

I blame the DEQM promos. :p

icurhere2 Sep 14, 2009 11:49 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12378474)
The laws regarding things like Sudafed, Claritin-D, etc. are absolutely ridiculous. I went to Target yesterday to get Claritin-D as mine and my wife's allergies are starting to pickup again. I went straight to the pharmacy counter and expected to buy a bottle of at least 24 tablets. Nope. You can now only buy 15 tablets at a time. That's right, if you and your significant other have allergies, you will be buying Claritin-D once a week. :rolleyes:

That's enough to make meth anyway. A repost of a past complaint about government's intervention on these purchases.

ConciergeMike Sep 14, 2009 11:49 am

Wouldn't your carrier seek a settlement from the other one? Your insurance would pay to fix your problem and then demand compensation from the neighbor's insurer, as the root cause (oops) is the neighbor's tree.

sdm1130 Sep 14, 2009 11:50 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12378474)
The laws regarding things like Sudafed, Claritin-D, etc. are absolutely ridiculous. I went to Target yesterday to get Claritin-D as mine and my wife's allergies are starting to pickup again. I went straight to the pharmacy counter and expected to buy a bottle of at least 24 tablets. Nope. You can now only buy 15 tablets at a time. That's right, if you and your significant other have allergies, you will be buying Claritin-D once a week. :rolleyes:

The pharmacist told me "you can come back tomorrow to get more"... I wanted to scream "why can't I just buy it now!?" but instead offered, "no, I'd rather not get put on a government watch list as a possible meth producer".

That's ridiculous. I also hate having to ask someone to confirm my age on a self check out machine because I'm buying brake fluid or something similar that kids apparently use to get high.

ConciergeMike Sep 14, 2009 11:53 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12378474)
The laws regarding things like Sudafed, Claritin-D, etc. are absolutely ridiculous.

This is the sad state of 21st century America. Punish the majority for the minority's actions. Hey, New Jersey made an attempt to ban the Brazilian wax because two women got infections. Two people have bad luck, so yes, of course...the next logical step is to punish all eight million of us here...yes, I of course included men in the punished class.

MBM3 Sep 14, 2009 11:54 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12378474)
The laws regarding things like Sudafed, Claritin-D, etc. are absolutely ridiculous. I went to Target yesterday to get Claritin-D as mine and my wife's allergies are starting to pickup again. I went straight to the pharmacy counter and expected to buy a bottle of at least 24 tablets. Nope. You can now only buy 15 tablets at a time. That's right, if you and your significant other have allergies, you will be buying Claritin-D once a week. :rolleyes:

The pharmacist told me "you can come back tomorrow to get more"... I wanted to scream "why can't I just buy it now!?" but instead offered, "no, I'd rather not get put on a government watch list as a possible meth producer".

This drives me freakin' nuts! What really sucks if you need to make the purchase and all of the nearby pharmacies are closed for the evening, which happened to me earlier this summer. :td::td:

gbryan84 Sep 14, 2009 11:55 am


Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12378439)
I was concerned about almost 3 hours a week ago at JFK.*

* For those going to ZRH, be prepared ...

:confused: Landing in ZRH or returning to JFK?

ssullivan Sep 14, 2009 11:58 am


Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12378526)
This drives me freakin' nuts! What really sucks if you need to make the purchase and all of the nearby pharmacies are closed for the evening, which happened to me earlier this summer. :td::td:

My partner used to take Claritin D all the time, before being told by his doctor to stop because he was getting way too much of it. He hit the maximum he could buy for the year last year so I started having to buy it for him. We also figured out that it appears to be tracked only within each state, because while he couldn't purchase it in Georgia, he was able to legally buy it in California and Texas.

Hartmann Sep 14, 2009 11:58 am


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12378517)
This is the sad state of 21st century America. Punish the majority for the minority's actions. Hey, New Jersey made an attempt to ban the Brazilian wax because two women got infections. Two people have bad luck, so yes, of course...the next logical step is to punish all eight million of us here...yes, I of course included men in the punished class.

Statistically speaking, I would wager a bet that most meth producers experience at least one lab explosion in their career, and that for most, it's a bad one. Therefore, my hypothesis is that they are punishing themselves.

The article icurhere2 posted proves that even more, with people having the bottles blow up in their hands. Isn't that punishment enough? Give me back my allergy medicine!

Hartmann Sep 14, 2009 11:59 am


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12378553)
My partner used to take Claritin D all the time, before being told by his doctor to stop because he was getting way too much of it. He hit the maximum he could buy for the year last year so I started having to buy it for him. We also figured out that it appears to be tracked only within each state, because while he couldn't purchase it in Georgia, he was able to legally buy it in California and Texas.

Absolutely ridiculous.

MBM3 Sep 14, 2009 11:59 am


Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12378530)
:confused: Landing in ZRH or returning to JFK?

ZRH is a breeze.

icurhere2 Sep 14, 2009 12:02 pm


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12378494)
Wouldn't your carrier seek a settlement from the other one? Your insurance would pay to fix your problem and then demand compensation from the neighbor's insurer, as the root cause (oops) is the neighbor's tree.

That's what I thought and I'm assigning about a 50% probability that's the problem. Neighbor has a tall tree less than 10 feet from the property border.


Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12378530)
:confused: Landing in ZRH or returning to JFK?

Returning to JFK. I actually feared I might miss my 8:25 departure at one time.


Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12378559)
ZRH is a breeze.

ZRH undoubtedly deserves the rankings as one of the world's finest. Now if I could just get through a european airport without visiting secondary ...

colpuck Sep 14, 2009 12:04 pm


Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12378574)
Now if I could just get through a european airport without visiting secondary ...

ditto except insert US

colpuck Sep 14, 2009 12:08 pm

Another useless UA promo.

http://www.united.com/page/article/0...BigPromoSept14


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