{"id":84,"date":"2011-07-10T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2019-11-25T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:44:22","slug":"too-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"TOO HELPFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TOO HELPFUL<\/h2>\n<p>Doing some intense training with some students and stressing the importance of<br \/>\nalways checking if a patient has used a product before and if not always<br \/>\nvolunteer to do a demonstration give intense counselling and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>A customer not so youngish nor oldish approaches the counter does the quick<br \/>\nglance around and then discretely hands over a box of condoms to my very keen to<br \/>\nhelp student. I noticed and a terrible thought briefly crossed my mind which I<br \/>\nquickly dismissed, surely they wouldn&#8217;t, no of course not&#8230;&#8230;..but they did.<br \/>\nWell they asked the question, &#8220;So have you used these before?&#8221; The customer&#8217;s jaw<br \/>\nalmost hit the ground and a multitude of shock, embarrasement and amusement<br \/>\ncrossed their face. The customer stood there speechless not sure if a response<br \/>\nwas really expected, which was obviously not the best answer as my student<br \/>\ninterpreted this to mean &#8216;no and some help would be appreciated&#8217;, despite my<br \/>\nfrantic arm waving and head nodding negatively in the background. Well thank God<br \/>\nthey went for a verbal explanation as I had my doubts, gosh anything could have<br \/>\nbeen possible. Other customers were creeping closer and also listening intently<br \/>\nto the incredibly implicit detail, meanwhile the customer whose whole body was<br \/>\nnow a bright shade of red had beads of sweat dripping off his forehead was<br \/>\nalready twisted in the exit position anxious to make his getaway. My heart went<br \/>\nout to him and I seriously contemplated activating the smoke alarm in the centre<br \/>\nor taking some other drastic measures, crikey how much more was there to tell.<br \/>\nFinally it was over and my student closed the conversation with &#8220;and have a nice<br \/>\nweekend won&#8217;t you.&#8221; And all the other customers smiled at him and assumed obviously the worst..or actually the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOO HELPFUL Doing some intense training with some students and stressing the importance of always checking if a patient has used a product before and if<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovebyprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}