I was driving down the street drinking this Yoo-hoo — kind of hard to admit but it’s an occasional guilty pleasure — and I noticed this spot on the label that announced proudly, “Same Great Taste!” Same great taste? As What? The regular Yoo-hoo? I thought I was drinking a regular Yoo-hoo. Maybe they were trying to tell me that, though they cut corners by only giving me 15.5 oz instead of the 16 oz implied by the size of the bottle, they at least hadn’t cheapened the ingredients. I can still enjoy the same great artificial chocolate flavor — Same Great Taste! Reminds me of a cheap dollar-store Space Shuttle model I saw once. It was obvious the label was Japanese translated roughly into English and the label people had mistaken a disclaimer for a selling point. The label, in bold letters across the bottom corner of the box, splashed the message, “The Hatch Does Not Open!” Yes, I need a life.
I know Mighty Girl is the queen of the overheard snippet of amusing conversation, but I had a Mighty Girl moment the other night walking through the hospital parking garage. A mother and her teenage son were strolling out to their car which must’ve been near mine…
Mother: Sorry they had to catheterize you.
Teen Son: Yeah.
Mother: That must’ve been pretty painful.
Teen Son: Not too painful, just different
Mother: Different?
Teen Son: Yeah, it was an… um… interesting feeling.
So why, you ask, was I in a hospital parking garage? Petunia and Heidi were there. Seems Petunia had a fever, then one of her blood samples came back positive for some kind of nasty bacteria. Subsequent samples came back negative, though. But, by the time they figured that the original sample was mistakenly contaminated by hospital staff (Oops!) three days had gone by. What a waste of money and medical resources. If it were my insurance, I’d have protested. But Petunia has Medicare and Texas Childrens’ hospital is public, so I figure making them pay for their mistake would just be shuffling public money from one bucket to another. Not worth the energy that a protest would require.