@Leucrotta also we need to make not every goings-out a grocery run.

(when we spend significant money every trip we feel like we have to be Productive so usually we wind up hauling groceries home)

@topaz Maybe pretty used to the idea of medication being prescription that it's hard to remember OTC stuff is a thing too?

@Leucrotta huh. Huh. That could track.

though on the other paw, we haven't really had much in the way of prescription medications (there was the bupropion we had once but we never really took it)

@Leucrotta also we are HOME.

*collapses.*

*doesn't move.*

of fucking COURSE the literal cop is in at the front gate – saw their car outside
it looks exactly like a cop car but with the markings removed – but it keeps the black-and-white paint scheme! Subtle. </s>

don't want THEM seeing us in a skirt but there's nothing we could fucking do about it, with the surveillance cameras.

@Leucrotta since there's nothing we could do to hide, I flipped The Finger at the camera

because after that one time (when they tried to tell us "you shouldn't be here" when we were just washing dishes at midnight)? yeah. fuck them.

@Leucrotta (well okay their car doesn't look /exactly/ like a cop car since the cops use SUVs around here, but it's /painted/ like a cop car and looks like, maybe a Dodge Charger or something? like the cop cars were back east. Maybe it's different kinds of cops, highway vs. regular, or something.)

@Leucrotta ... re the pain talk

shit, do we have low-level chronic pain and just never thought it was enough to Actually Count??

or to take medications for

it's not like. really /bad/ pain. we just kind of constantly ache I think.

@Leucrotta (roping @certifiedperson in too – context: I mentioned hurting while hauling the groceries home, Leucrotta was like "oof, yeah take an ibuprofen when you get home" and I was like "???!!! we can do that?? oh of course we can do that holy fuck why didn't I think of it" – ...and now I'm wondering if we have low-key chronic pain and just never thought it was enough to count, or to take medications for.)

@topaz @Leucrotta YES you are allowed to take painkillers if you hurt! but also PLEASE be a bit careful with how much you're taking, how frequently (not too many days in a row, should have a guideline on the packet? Hopefully?) because ibuprofen can and will fuck up your stomach & cause severe acid reflux in the longterm.

If it's just a couple times a week then I'm mostly sure you're copacetic.

@certifiedperson @Leucrotta copacetic copacetic copacetic

... we haven't tried ibuprofen at all yet

and, packet? huh. yours comes in packets? we have a big bottle. couple hundred pills or something.

*looks at bottle* well poo, the label is wearing off, but I THINK it says "120 tablets"
it's lasted us a couple years at least, I think!

@topaz @Leucrotta oh right yeah we saw this discussion about that a while ago, how y'all get MASSIVE bottles of OTC painkillers over there! (Just because they are OTC does not mean they are super safe! Unfortunately.)

Our supermarkets are limited to I think selling one packet (20tab) per person/sale each of paracetamol & ibuprofen, and those are in the little cardboard box in uh, is it blister packs? With the flat plastic/foil thing where you push each pill out through the foil individually.

@certifiedperson @Leucrotta oh wow! wow.

those things, we get pseudoephedrine/pseudonephrine/whateverthefuck is the one that doesn't work as well but can't be used to make Illegal Drugs™® (because of course we can't have nice things because People Might Get Their Drugs 🙃) in those.