One of my partners just had carpal tunnel surgery, so has some rather impressive bruising in their hand and a row of stitches across the base of their palm. They aren’t doing anything that requires them to move that hand right now, especially something like opening a child-proof bottle. One of the things I did for them this past weekend was open bottles (including the ones prescribed for post-surgery pain, naturally) and count out pills. So, yeah, I’m cursing James Lewis too.
The cynic in me wonders what that market percentage is now.
Yeah, it could have been a fill-in-the-blank for any prescription medicine that’s advertised on TV (here’s a good/bad example that Harry Shearer shared a few months ago). Glad the medicine helps!
Apparently this guy was living about four blocks away, in an apartment building I walk by all the time. I wonder if they kept his photo behind the counter at the Walgreen’s over there.
Except they will notice the foil covering is gone/compromised, and that whole bottle is going in the garbage.
To commit the “perfect crime,” you would need to peel the foil without tearing it, remove the two pills, apply some sort of sealant, and gently fold the foil seal back into place. If you don’t follow these steps, the next person who wants to steal two pills from that bottle will feel cheated by the knowledge that some of the pills are already gone.
That event fucked me up for decades. I was 14 when that happened and I developed a panic disorder and OCD rituals around food tampering. It still lingers to this day. A good portion of the 80s I couldn’t handle eating food properly and it got worse over time.
You’re not alone. Food tampering is a really common phobia, so don’t feel bad about it! Like heights and snakes, it seems to be one that we’re wired pretty deeply for.
Me too. I was maybe 9, and got a really bad case of food poisoning at the same time this was all over the news. Fucked me up for life- I still can’t eat anything that didn’t come with a safety seal or from a kitchen I could see.
