Save Money, Live Better, Think Less.

I usually don't make a mid-week run to Wal-mart unless something is very, very wrong. It just so happens that autumn finally reared its ugly little head. For me, autumn means sinus infections and allergies. Something about the leaves falling just sets my mucus membranes to "Full speed ahead". I get to feel miserable until I shake it though intervention from some magic capsules from a pharmacy. Well, I went to Wal-mart to check out some medicine and to get some soup.

I got to the medicine isle, and noticed a scrubby looking guy who was browsing medicines as well. I didn't have a clue what I was going to buy, but it had to have the words "severe" and "relief" on the box. I picked up a few to compare the active ingredients and dosages, when scrubby guy asked me a question.

"Do you know a lot about these things?" and shook a box in front of my face. It was for some kind of Tylenol allergy relief. I told him that I hadn't used those before.

"Oh, I've had something like this before." He picked up another box, which looked very similar to the other one. "I used this in the springtime. I was wondering if these ones, (which he was holding up initially in front of me), work better than the other ones. I heard the flavored ones get you better faster."

Yes, that's right. He measures the effectiveness of medicine by how good it tastes. For the record, they were marked "cool burst capsules" as compared to the regular gel tab ones. I told him that I wasn't a doctor, and told him to ask the lady behind the counter in the white lab coat. But nothing says healthy like a shot of the cool burst. I hear that's what they used to cure polio and smallpox. Just a little shot of the cool burst and you'll be out of that wheelchair in no time!

I passed on the medicine and just bought a lot of soup.