Monday, November 26, 2007

Kindness of strangers

Tonight I purchased a bevy of drugs at the local Walgreens. While waiting for the amoxicillin, I had time to read through labels for the accompanying nasal spray and Mucinex. The former prompted a lengthy consideration of how much squeezing constitutes a single "spray" from the bottle and the latter got me wondering if the name is just exact enough to be perfect or too gross to be effective.

"Have you ever taken that before?" piped up the only other customer in the waiting area, gesturing to the Mucinex box.

"Nope, first time."

"Well, it makes your urine smell just awful! I just don't know what they put in there." she continued, looking surprisingly young and normal to be discussing body fluids with a stranger.

"Thanks for the tip. Good to know, I guess."