To the editor:
As I was on one of my wandering, highly-educational jaunts through a local store, I was drawn to the pain pill aisle. As long as I can remember, popular name brand companies have built their success on one main ingredient. Ingredients such as Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, Naproxen sodium, etc.
According to company ads, these particular ingredients made their product the most effective at addressing pain. Now, somehow my mind is drawn to a difference in advertising. These same popular brands who proudly once stood alone touting the best pain reliever, now offer the same packaging but with many of these different ingredients now mixed together.
Apparently, the “best” was not as good as described. I would point out that I have mixed these different pain killers for years. I figured that something would surely work. To answer your question, “Nothing ever did.”
I wish to point out one more, even more incredible Clardy revelation that I happened to discover during this same particular jaunt. I noticed two bottlers of a popular pain pill sitting side by side. It seemed that something was different. I picked up and studied the bottles. One bottle was a regular bottle of this OTC medication. The other practically identical bottle had the word “Migraine” emblazoned across the front. I thought that, maybe, I had finally found something for my headache. I studied the ingredients for the medicine that was to work on a migraine. I ask my reader to follow carefully. I found the ingredients in both bottles to be exactly the same. No, my friend, you read right. Apparently the word, “Migraine” was, in itself, enough to do the trick for a typical, trusting modern day American. Someone please respond. Thanks for listening.
Bobby Clardy
Toccoa