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October 25, 2011 16 Comments

Well, right back at you!

I’m always amused when I pick up my prescriptions from CVS. They put the first two letters of your last name in the upper corner of the label on the bag. Like this:

FU CVS

Well, right back at you, CVS!

I’ve been trying to think up any other funny combinations that might occur, but I’m coming up dry. There’s always BS but I can’t think of any name that starts with those two letters.

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  1. Deb Hardman says

    October 25, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Mine would be HA!

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  2. Cari says

    October 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    It’s kind of sad, the first thing I thought was… the Dalai Lama’s real last name starts with BST. I only know this because I have cataloged so many of his books for the library. But he probably doesn’t get his prescriptions at CVS.

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  3. Pamela pack says

    October 25, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    as you can see, my initials are PP. the niece and nephew espeically enjoyed calling me Aunt PP when they were small!

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  4. Tricia says

    October 25, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    In college we all got automatically generated email addresses, always lastname+first two letters of first name. My friend (Holly Street) ended up with “streetho” for four years.

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  5. Debbi Does Dinner Healthy says

    October 25, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    @Pamela pack – My mom refrained from naming me Pamela JUST for that reason. Apparently that was first on the list until she realized the initials. 🙂

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  6. Merry says

    October 25, 2011 at 8:59 pm

    I am reminded of the woman who objected to the fact that the airline put a FAT label on her luggage, despite the fact that she was flying to the Fresno airport (which has the dubious distinction of having those three letters as its TLA).

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  7. Nancy says

    October 26, 2011 at 9:30 am

    I also have a last name issue with CVS . . . My last name is Hoover.
    When I take a prescription in and choose to wait for it, the tag comes out saying:
    HO WAITING

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  8. JenFul says

    October 26, 2011 at 11:15 am

    @Nancy – @Tricia – @Merry – OMG, I literally LOLed at your comments. Thanks for the early morning laugh! 🙂

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  9. Dup says

    October 26, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Mine would be HO. Not exactly a compliment, unless you think of it as Santa laughing, but that’s usually HO HO HO. WIth just the one HO, it makes me think of something else entirely.

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  10. Shannon says

    October 26, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    my maiden name was Hagerty. I got a lot of stuff that said SHag (shannon Hagerty) Nice.

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  11. Astrid says

    October 27, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    Mine would be ME. Isn’t all that funny, but is a word! If you used the first three letters, it’s be MED. Which for a prescription is pretty fitting.

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  12. Kelly says

    October 28, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    Mine must be the opposite in CVS karma. The first two letters of my last name are HI. At least, if I’m getting a prescription it sounds friendly.

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  13. Renee says

    October 28, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    Count me in as a “HO Waiting” as well…funny at first, but at 3 am at times…you take it personally! LOL

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  14. Katharine says

    October 29, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Hee, hee! Everyone’s name stories are great! CVS would tag me as OM, because my last name is O’Moore-Klopf. Meditate on that. 🙂

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  15. Colleen Kelly Mellor says

    November 10, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    OK, Jen–Here’s one (a funny letter combine, that is): Younger daughter in high school had best friend who got her driver’s license and a car–all at once. She went to Registry and lo and behold…they assigned her the random HO 69….
    Her Mom pitched a fit, marched her down to Registry where she told all: “My daughter’s not riding around town advertiising herself in that manner. That HO has to go!” She got her wish…they relented.

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  16. Bobby J says

    February 24, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    My CVS moniker is JO – pretty funny to a gay guy like me! (Straight guys would probably laugh too!). And my initials are BJ, which completes the set very nicely.

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