Hreeewwwweeeugh
I made a noise like Chewbacca stubbing his toe as I looked at the sorry mess that was my reflection, in the bathroom mirror.
Normally, at this point in the morning after my shower, I would take a moment to admire myself. Perhaps give myself a compliment or two. You handsome blokey bastard was always a favourite one.
Not today though.
My reflection stared back, eyes puffy, red-rimmed and raw looking, underneath them my nose dribbled and ran like a small stream.
Need medicine.
I grunted out loud to no-one in particular.
I staggered out of the bathroom and headed downstairs, where the love of my life greeted me tenderly.
Fuck. You look AWFUL!??
She recoiled slightly as if scared I might come over for a kiss.
Aye, thank bawjaws. I need antihistamines, stat.
Oh. We don't have any.
She grimaced apologetically.
Bollocks.
I turned and headed for the door making an odd humphling sound as I tried to keep bodily fluids from falling out of my face.
Twenty minutes of snottery, itchy-eyed travel later, I found myself in Superdrug staring at the antihistamine shelf in disbelief.
£6.75!?! For a pack of antihistamines!?!
I did a quick @tarazkp calculation... That's like 20 steem!?! Bugger that. I stomped out. There was another shop that sold them nearby. They were bound to be much cheaper.
Moments later, I stood in Boots. Another drug emporium.
£6.74 !? What is this, some kind of conspiracy?!
One of my itchy eyes chose at that moment to burst with tepid rage like an overripe grape and dribble down my cheek.
I made a forlorn honking like a sunburnt seal on a sandy rock and staggered out of the shop.
I was desperate. Utterly desperate. I needed antihistamines to alleviate my hayfevery woes but not so desperate that I would accept a vigorous strumming on my chocolate banjo for it.
What to do? What to do?
Suddenly, inspiration struck.
Pound Land - where everything cost a mere pound. They sold medicines. Surely they couldn't be part of the conspiracy to over-charge me?
I set off, staggering once more in a half-blind and wet faced mess toward the fabled Pound Land.
I lurched through the doors and headed to the back where they kept the good stuff.
The place was chockablock with poor people jostling and grunting at one another in their neverending search for tawdry plastic things.
I elbowed my way past them.
I passed a man in a wheelchair. He only had one leg. He had a seven-pack of socks in his hand.
I couldn't help but marvel. A seven pack, for a pound. He only had one leg. That's like 14 socks. He had truly struck gold.
I just managed to refrain from congratulating him on his one-legged win.
A few paces beyond sock man, I found the medicine aisle.
Praise be!
I dropped to my knees and started digging through the piles of condoms and hair conditioner. Finally I found them. Generic no-brand antihistamines.
HA!
I fumbled the pack open and popped one out, swallowing it dry before hobbling to the counter to pay my dues.
Second later I was on the street.
It might have been the placebo effect but already I could feel myself recovering. My stagger becoming less pronounced. My eyes drying up.
I straightened up fully to my normal handsome-osity and put a pep in my walk like a sexy Keyser Söze.
God bless you modern medicine!
And God bless pound shops!
Itching, coughing, sneezing...argh, the worst!
Pound land, that's hilarious, we have many dollar tree's and such here too- I never thought about medicines...hmm, I'll have to check out their supply next time!
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I will have a look straight after bedtime. It's no use without sound!!
Hehe, yeah, generic medicine. Top notch for a quid!!
I buy all my Ranitidine there, that's when they have them in stock. Many times they are wiped out. Zantac, you can bugger off with that stuff. £3.50 a pack and that's at Tesco.
I buy ranitidine there too and the generic immodium if in going on hols, total bargain!
Cheers for awesome land
Cheers dudeski!! :0)
Hahaa that sounds quite like the Walmart in my town. It should equate with our dollar store, but since Walmart has become so bloody greedy I lump them all together. We have one legged sock shoppers too lol
I was genuinely in awe of the man. I was like, fuck, you could wear one a day and just throw it out after one wear!! The king of socks!
When you said Pound Land I thought this was going somewhere else...
Haha. I bet;!!!
The sock man got a bargain for sure and worth a smile. The other good thing is he can steal the shoe samples on the stand if they are in his size. I told you anusol would have worked and blocked up your nose for sure.
Haha. I was close to trying it!! But aye, the sock king doesn't know how close to kinghood he is. Maybe...
No brand all the way especially in pharmaceutical stuff lol !
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I totally agree. Such cash saving!!
I new a guy who's job it was to test them they are all the same! 😁
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Ha, free drugs. Kind of :0)
It's legal : WTF , 'a normal day in Russia' :
goddamn , crazy motherfucker.
(nothing is entirely true and not even that)
But he's very cute , #'puking in silence'
Goodmorning Russia
Lol. Aye. Legal indeed!!
Lol!!
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I think I have seen a "movie" called Pound Land
I have to take medication all year round so that my allergies aren't too bad in the spring and early summer. The amount my family is spending per month on meds is one thing I make damn sure I don't convert into Steem as I would likely cry for the first time since a young teen.
You would indeed! I swear they have all gotten together to fix the prices they j have leapt up massively. I am relieved that the pound shop saved me. Allergies are no fun whatsoever.
Did they expire in 2012 by any chance?
I hate going into those shops. Not cos I think I'm above them. The opposite in fact. You go in for a pack of pegs for a $1 and you come out with $20 worth of crap you probably don't need.
I did buy a brolly as well!! Hehe, they are in date although I did go look just there!
No lets hope it keeps you awake for the day at work........some have a kick.
I wish man, they make me sluggish!
Oh I can relate - I think I spend half my salary on antihistamine and sinus pills..........of which none really works but it is way worse without it. It is getting more and more expensive. Wish we had a shop like that. I have no 'stuck-upness' that makes me think I am too good to shop where the poor go. I blend right in hahaha
Hehe, there must be one surely. Over here they are springing up all over the place!!
We have a few cheapy shops but not with meds
it is a wonder one of the dulalies wasn't visiting the boss, and offering to cure you, then you would have been in the deep smelly stuff
They would have had me under a homeopathic laser spine through flower petals or something, haha
I should check the US equivalent, the Dollar Tree. I know they occasionally have better prices on some goods than the big box stores offer. I haven't really explored their health and medicine section though.
Umbrellas and drugs, that's what ours are good for!!
Bottled water when our neighborhood pipes froze a couple winters ago!
Ah, it's endless!!
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