Bottle of Bayer Aspirin: $3.00<\/p>\n
Tin of Altoid mints: $0.99<\/p>\n
Getting your wife to chew on an aspirin tablet thinking it was a mint: Priceless.<\/p>\n
Carol mentioned that she would like some Aspirin. I thought, no problem. I can stop by Walgreens and get her some. So I did. She was at work, and doesn\u2018t really have anyplace to put it. My quick thinking made me realize that I had this thin metal container that my mints are in. An Altoid tin. Problem solved. It was one of those mini tins. about a quarter of an inch thick, and a couple inches long, and about an inch and a half wide (yeah, I\u2019d never make it in a metric world).<\/p>\n
I emptied the mints from the tin and refilled the tin with about a dozen aspirin tablets. More than enough to last her today, and small enough to easily fit in her pocket. I locate her at her work place and and give her the tin. I tell her that it\u2019s aspirin in my mint tin so that it will fit in her pocket. To my surprise and utter respect, she pulled out an aspirin right there and started chewing on it. I tell you what. I have a deep respect for anyone who can chew on an aspirin tablet as though it were candy. I bow before your superiority. Then she had this horrible look on her face. She almost puked right there on the spot. One of her coworkers asked her if she was all right when he saw the look on her face. When she told him what I did, he wanted to shake my hand. He told everyone how cool I was for slipping my wife an aspirin making her think it was a mint.<\/p>\n
What happened was this. She thought I had said that I found some aspirin that was mint flavored. Big difference. Anyways. I couldn\u2019t have played a mean trick on her like that if I had wanted to. That was the perfect psych. Had I thought of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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