Posted on 12/26/2010 5:50:47 AM PST by franksolich
When I got to the neighbor's house for Christmas dinner today, the neighbor was out, looking after the cattle, but his wife was in the kitchen, sitting at the table, going through a large bag of transparent tan-colored pharmaceutical bottles, taking out their contents and carefully putting a pill each into different compartments of two plastic boxes (which looked as if fishing-tackle boxes).
Auntie had arrived under the cover of darkness the previous night, but was still sleeping.
I looked at a couple of bottles, paid for by the hard-pressed taxpayers of Missouri, but being unfamiliar with pharmaceutical drugs, saw nothing of particular interest. They were anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, pro-depressants, uppers, downers, blood pressure stabilizers, cholesterol-lowerers, happy pills, blood thinners, blood thickeners, hormones, chromosomes, pain-killers, stuff for diabetics, heart pills, liver pills, female pills, the like.
"You know, it used to be easier," I commented, "when they just had Lydia Pinkham's Special Vegetable Compound for Female Complaints, twelve cents a box, via Sears, Roebuck catalogue order circa 1890, before the FDA got tough about ingredients."
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Ping for the list; I hope this is of interest.
Entertaining read.
Still don’t know exactly what he means by a “primitive”, though.
Auntie was definitely a 60s basket case.
Sad and funny.
Fascinating read frank!
Yep. Old hippies never die, they just get new clothes, become “Progressives”, make friends with Bill Ayers and wife, and push the Cloward-Piven strategy. Only when the voters buck them do they even pretend to read anyone as - common and unsophisticated (sniff) as Ronald Reagan. Note, I said pretend to read (that’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it).
You make a sad story a good read.
I think the unintentional--it wasn't meant, it just happened that way naturally--contrast between Auntie and her niece makes it an unsad story. But that's just my opinion, and writers can't objectively evaluate their own work.
Yes, the contrast between Auntie and the niece is what makes the story compelling.
The sad story for me was the wasted potential of a human being but it all boils down to choices we make in life.
Of course this is of interest franksolich!
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