Have you ever
scoffed at someone’s
helpful suggestion,
finally tried it
and found out
they were actually
right?
For the past two weeks literally everyone around me has gotten the same cold–my friends, co-workers and family. For a time I felt like I might be blessedly immune, but then I bought a plane ticket to go to Vancouver for a nice 5-day vacation.
Even when I did it, I knew I was not only tempting fate, I was egging its house and calling it out on network television. So, of course, I have a cold now and the trip has been postponed.
Feeling that terrible tickle in the throat that augers nearly all of my illnesses, I decided to finally try a remedy my father had long advocated–at the first sign of said tickle, drink a shot of vodka.
And though my head is currently filling up with various nasty fluids as I type this, I have to say that–for the first time since I can remember in my history of such illnesses–my throat feels fine. The tickle vanished and a few subsequent shots have kept it away.
It kinda makes me wonder about other useful pieces of advice I’ve ignored over the years–mostly out of stubbornness. It also makes me regret all of the sore throats over the years I could have avoided via the Absolut in my freezer.
Joanna, I can’t believe you don’t know Straight Talk ;D That is almost better Dolly than Rhinestone Cowboy with Sylvester Stallone! Advice I should have taken a long time ago and still have to remind myself to take – “Trust your gut.” Being an incredibly anxious person (especially social anxiety in-person, comes with Aspie territory I’ve learned), my gut is like a yappy little Chihuahua that never stops barking “I don’t like this! I don’t like this!” so I’ve had to learn to tune that out (to a degree) just to make myself function in the world and talk to… Read more »
I don’t feel we should stop scoffing for fear of having to reverse our decisions. The immediate pleasure of scoffing should stand on its own.
I love Alexa’s Gravatar names.
I feel like the MOMENT I think someone is being a moron I have to eat my words. Seriously, it’s nonstop.
I have no clue why Dolly is in that photo, but okay why not.
It is an image from the poster of her 1992 movie STRAIGHT TALK, in which she plays a small-town woman who stumbles upon a gig as a radio advice show host due to her no-nonsense attitude towards life. Also, she and James Woods fall in love. It’s pretty obvious, Joanna.
Thanks, Joanna!
Allan – the oils are fairly easy to procure from your local sorcerer/wizard/GNC/vitamin shop/health-food store. With the vitamin D, of course, don’t get anything except D3.
Did you take my advice of oregano oil/olive leaf extract and vitamin D?
I would, but I honestly have no idea where I would find any (of the oil, I can get the vitamin D no problem).