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sometimes when i think i might need tylenol overnight, i take two of them out of the bottle and put them at my bedside with a bottle of water. no fumbling, no confusion -- i don't even have to get out of bed.
for some reason i didn't do that last night. so at 5 am i stumbled into the bathroom for drugs. i didn't turn on the light, because i didn't want to wake up so much i'd have a hard time going back to sleep. that was okay, because i knew exactly where to locate the 1000-count bottle of tylenol (thank you, costco).
what i didn't know is that i'd neglected to screw the lid on correctly last time i used it. i picked the bottle up by its cap, and tylenol cascaded everywhere.
loudly.
in great number.
i spent the next ten minutes on my hands and knees on the bathroom floor, with the light on, picking up caplets, evaluating each one based on where it had landed: was it now too gross to put back in the bottle, or did it seem pristine enough for future consumption?
hell of a way to greet the day.
Comments
You missed some.
When I got up this morning I saw a little red-and-white capsule on the floor and thought you might have dropped one while taking it. Then I saw another. Don't worry, I threw them out, but we might be finding them for months.
Posted by: paul | April 14, 2003 04:36 PM
When I was sick and Mama was living here, I would put a kitchen chair by my bed for a glass of water and sleeping pill. I would put the pill on a wash cloth so if I reached for it at night (never happened), it wouldn't roll off the chair.
Another strange but true genetic trait.
Posted by: auntb | April 16, 2003 06:30 PM
found another one this morning. it will be our own personal easter egg hunt.
Posted by: julie | April 17, 2003 10:53 AM