Go buy some NyQuil. Now! You know, the night-time sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever so you can rest medicine? You’re going to need it eventually, so buy some already!
This is the kind of good advice that I can give to others, but can’t quite manage to follow myself. As a result, I didn’t have NyQuil last night or the four previous times I needed it—of course the need in question only presents itself (quite inconveniently) in the middle of the night. So what’s a person to do?
Re-read the first sentence and follow the sage advice contained therein, that’s what!
But still, NyQuil is kind of expensive so I tend not to buy it when I’m not sick. Of course its relative worth increases exponentially when faced with a mucous filled night without sleep.
I only live a couple blocks away from a 24-hour grocery store that sells NyQuil, but they also charge a Lot for it. I suppose that makes sense since they know they pretty much have a lock on the middle-of-the-night-poor-planning-sick-person market, at least in this area.
I realize that purchasing a generic, or store-brand can be a way to save money and that a lot of the store-brand versions of cold medicine are exactly the same as their more expensive brand-name counterparts. But that’s not always the case. There are some formulations that appear to have swapped out all the “palatable flavor” ingredients for one or more of the “diarrhea inducement” ingredients available on the market. Yeah, I think I’d rather pay the extra $2.00.
As for me, I don’t feel any better than I did last night and the sun will be down soon enough. But it seems like there’s something I was supposed to do today...or read, or maybe re-read.
Oh well, I suppose it will come to me later tonight.
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