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This was a Family Dollar. I'll have to check at the drug store the next time I go; I wonder if it's a general thing, or maybe just a chain by chain thing.

I did some more readoing about it, and apparently what they take is metric fucktons of it. The max recommended daily dose is 16 mg for an adult, usually in 4 divided doses...people who are trying to get some kind of opiate-type effect(beyond constipation) are taking 200-400 mg/day. My colon would never speak to me again, no matter how high I got. Edit: I might as well turn in my decoder ring and resign - I've hit the point in life where normal bowel function is more appealing than getting high.

That's what makes the clerk's reaction even weirder - nobody has ever seemed to have a problem telling me that I have to sign for real Sudafed because you can make meth out of it, or that they need ID for Robitussin DM because the kids drink it to get high. But this chick - the look on her face was like I'd asked her where a good place to get kiddie porn was.

(Actually, I read the article - thank you. I just wanted a chance to say that in a thread about an anti-diarrheal.)

You're shitting me.

I went to the family dollar this morning, and while I was waiting for the clerk to find her way to the register, I took a look in the locked case to see if they carry my brands. They didn't, but what they did have locked up was the Immodium and all the generic equivalents thereof. I asked the clerk, and she said that they had to, because people were stealing it, and she had no idea why. (Answers delivered through gritted teeth; whether there are a lot of idiots like me asking, or because there's a sordid story behind it, I don't know). So tell me, all you trend setters out there, what is so alluring about Immodium that it has to be locked up? I've never even seen that done with Robitussin DM. Is there some kind of never poop again fad going on, or is it something more arcane?

Policies and procedures differ from institution to institution - I'm sure that's true in your business as well as mine. That's why new employees get orientation before they're handed a mop or a bedpan. Did you consider that they may have been red-carded?

Oh. So since I've worked in hospitals, I know exactly what the drill is in a nursing home. That's an interesting premise. Too bad it doesn't quite work that way.

How do you know they weren't checking everybody's ID? Because she said so?

Meh, he likes her cause she's cheap. Won't drop the $30 for a state ID, was trying to get into a club for free. The woman of his dreams.

OK, is this really you, or have you been replaced by a pod person?

No, they picked on her because she didn't have what is usually considered valid ID, and they were attempting to work with her to remedy the situation when her "window of opportunity closed" (her friend who was going to sleaze her in free went off shift), and she didn't want to pay to get in, so she left too. And get over yourself - I get proofed all the time. I can't buy smokes or cartridges at the drug store or beer at the grocery store without having my license scanned, because the registers are programmed not to complete the transaction until proof of age is presented. And I'm probably just about your age - I may actually be a couple of years older.

Is it issued by the county, state, or federal government? And did they scan it, or just look at it?

If she had not been a woman of a certain age, but instead had been in her 20's, Kenny wouldn't care either - he'd be more focused on the fact that she was trying to sleaze her way in through a friend that worked there and was apparently going off duty soon. She flat out said that she didn't want to pay to get in, so she left.

What? No diarrhea? Amateur.

Well, that's it. My reason for living is gone.

Why are you so righteously indignant about this? Was this a date that you missed, or did you fail to provide appropriate ID someplace, and this video rattled your cage? Also, if she had been willing to wait, the situation might have been resolved, but, because she really wasn't there as a guest, but as a free-loader who was imposing on a friend to get her in free(at who knows what peril to their job?), she opted not to wait for approval. They didn't throw her out, she left.

. Yes. Yes, you should.

**Sends you bill for calamine lotion and Benadryl**

Please stop before you break into Kumbayah; you're giving me flashbacks to Girl Scout camp, and I'm starting to itch from long-gone mosquito bites.

Leave the poop alone. It's just a cute happy little poop, and it's just sitting there being cute and happy. Zeni is now allowed to post and make threads, which is all that really matters. The poop isn't doing anything besides maybe providing a rating - instead of PG-13, most of his posts are poop. Granted, they can be amusing - I'm particularly enjoying the ticket arc - but they are poop.

That was exactly what I thought.

It may not kill you, but it is not fine.

I sit corrected - the first article I read implied that the teacher wanted only gender neutral pronouns used in the classroom, which to me seemed disrespectful to the students by not using their preferred pronouns. But I found the USA Today article, which says that they only want gender neutral pronouns used for them, and that they will use the students' preferred pronouns. That's ok - I just want my kids and their pronouns left in peace. So never mind. The kids can stay in school as long as respect for everyone's identity is maintained (and there are plenty of fire exits) and the teachers are competent (no matter what they identify as). And the strange part is, I don't know why I'm even interested - the kids actually graduated 10 or 12 years ago, and, much as I fret, the grandkids' teachers and schools are the decision of their parents.