I’m sick with a crappy cold on my birthday weekend. And last night I misread the directions on a Robitussin bottle, and took 4 doses at once. I was high as a kite, or as the kids like to call it these days, robotripping. I’m too sick to go out drinking tonight. Instead, I may get hopped up on Robitussin again and leave incoherent comments on everyone’s blogs.
Have a good weekend, and if you’re drinking, have one for me.
Happy Birthday! Why not have a shot of brandy or something. Robitussin is nasty and doesn’t work anyway.
My 3 year old went robotripping last week all the way to the ER. Child proof caps do not work for her.
Bummer! Hope you get to feeling better.
Happy B-day and hope you feel better soon!
If you have to drink with a cold, I recommend Screwdrivers. Think of it this way, the vitamin C in the OJ is good for you and the vodka acts a s a rapid deployment system to speed it thru your whole body!
We hand plenty of wine for you
Well….I’ll offer 2 different drink choices. And both are effective, but one is, shall we say, a little more extreme than the other.
First, a traditional cold/flu drink:
1 tbsp honey
3/4 glass tea
2 shots Cordell’s Cordon Blue
1 slice lemon
1/8 pad of butter
Brew tea and fill a tall glass 3/4 full. Stir in butter. Mix in honey. Mix in Cordell. Add lemon slice and enjoy. I like an earl gray with this, myself…
Next, a not so (to you) traditional cold/flue drink. This has been handed down from my father’s side for 6 generations, oft times inscribed on an inner leaf of a family bible. I will tell you right now that this is not your daddy’s drink. Or your granddaddy’s drink. This is a mean-ass, Florida everglades thin as a whippet but bust your ass for you anyway drink.
It works: I will attest to that. But you’re going to think it’s going to kill you. Here is it:
1/2 cup icy cold good quality white wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Mix everything together until both the salt and the cayenne dissolve. Stand the drink until it warms to room temperature, then stir once more and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, then sip until gone.
Okay, I KNOW I just said sip it but to my mind there is no sipping this; it’s down the hatch or nothing. Your chest and throat are going to burn as a sun but will soon ease off into banked warmth.
Trust me; your nasal passages will clear right up.
If your mouth is sore, that will abate. Indeed, you will be hard pressed to find any feeling or taste in your mouth.
All I can say is it works.
There you have it: 2 cold/flue drink recipes.
I can only trust you choose the right one for you.
I guess I’m old, but all we had back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) was robadope. Drink a bottle of robitussin and smoke a fatty. Tripping was strictly done with acid. So robotripping, to me sounds like something an MIT geek does in the confines of his locked dorm room with his personal electronics
Doc – It sounds like crap, but I think I could handle the 2nd one. I have a sinus spray for colds that has cayenne in it, and that stuff works.
T – you’re right… I wasn’t tripping, but definitely floating when I walked. I would call it a Tussin high.