Speaking of vicks vapor rub...my stepmom (God rest her soul) had the weird idea that eating vicks vapor rub would cure my chest cold. After chasing me around for an hour and backing me into a corner, she'd take that dark blue jar of axil grease, stick her finger deep down into the middle of it, come up with what amounted to about two tablespoons of the stuff, force my mouth open and smear it on the back of my throat and tell me to swallow it. Okay...now that I'm an adult and really can think for myself...what the H#$! did swallowing that crap do for my lungs? All it did was make me sick to my stomach...did nothing for my lungs. Before my dad married my step-mom, it had always been rubbed on my chest...you should have seen my face the first time my SM told me I had to eat the stuff.

Another childhood medicine trauma...Pepto Bismol...that stuff is disgusting and I'd rather have a screaming case of hemroids the size of each of my butt cheeks than take that stuff. Gag me with a spoon!!!!