Shallow Thoughts  Akkana's Musings on Open Source, Science, and
Nature.  Tue, 11 Aug 2009  Breaking out of the Walgreens
Infinite Loop  Ever get caught in the Walgreens Infinite Loop?
You're phoning in a prescription refill, going through the
automated prompts, everything's going fine, and you get to the
point where it asks you, "If you will be picking up your
prescription tomorrow, press 1. If you will be picking up your
prescription today, press 2."  And you mistakenly press 2 when
you meant to press 1.  Now you're stuck. "Please enter the
pickup time in hours and minutes." Except it's already past
11pm, and anything you try gives you "Please allow at least one
hour. Please enter the pickup time ..." No option to switch days
or go back to an earlier prompt. You can't press 0 for an
operator -- they're closed, there's nobody there. But you can't
just hang up, either -- what would happen to your order then?
What if they marked it against one of your allowed refills and
... gave it to someone else! Oh no!  Bu