Aspirin

Yesterday (Wednesday, April 23, 2008), as part of Hughsy’s P-T-T-M delivery-service, delivering Killian biopsy slides from Emergency Veterinary Services (where he is) near deepest, darkest Henrietta, to the veterinary hospital out in the sticks in Livonia......
......we patronized the infamous Honeoye Falls MarketPlace supermarket to buy spinach and milk and a few other things.
“Whatever happens, we have to walk out of here with aspirin,” I said. “We’re almost out.”
My aspirin is only 81mg: lo-dose. I used to take higher, but my doctor asked why.
All it is is heart-maintenance; although I take two if I ran or worked out at the YMCA.
You don’t need much. 81mg lo-dose is enough.
So we found the analgesics, and I tossed of box of Bayer Lo-Dose in the cart.
“Wait a minute,” my wife said. “Are they kidding? $8.13?”
Back it went, but it was the onliest one I could see that said safety-coated.
We took a “Top-Care” lo-dose at $3.29. Same aspirin as the Bayer.
We poked around, and it said safety-coated.
“Ain’t that Bayer Lo-Dose the one that’s advertised on TV?”
“Some 40-ish lady with a licking dog — she telling us aspirin saved her life after a heart-attack?”
“$8.13 is enough to give you a heart-attack.”

(I PREDICT NOISY WAL*MART BLUSTERING FROM THE L-STREET POWER-STATION. Imported Chinese lo-dose safety-coated with red-lead, delivered by J.B. Hunt. [MASSIVE CARBON STOMP-PRINT FOR YOU, BABY!])

“P-T-T-M” equals “pedal-to-the-metal.”

“Killian” is our dog; a rescue Irish-Setter. He has open wounds on his thigh, so is at Emergency Veterinary Services. He also has lymphomic cancer, and is being chemoed at Livonia Veterinary Hospital. The biopsy was to determine if the skin-lesions were cancerous, which they aren’t. He’s over 10; we don’t know his birthday — we’ve had him over five years.

“Deepest, darkest Henrietta” is a rather effusive and obnoxious suburb south of Rochester.

“Honeoye Falls” is a small village about five miles away.

RE: “(I PREDICT NOISY WAL*MART BLUSTERING FROM THE L-STREET POWER-STATION. Imported Chinese lo-dose safety-coated with red-lead, delivered by J.B. Hunt. [MASSIVE CARBON STOMP-PRINT FOR YOU, BABY!])” —My all-knowing, blowhard brother-in-Boston, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say, is a managing-engineer at the L-Street electrical generating station outside Boston. He excoriates me for not shopping Wal*Mart, although I have on occasion, but it’s an added trip. Wal*Mart gets many of its deliveries from J.B. Hunt trucking.

“Red-lead” is a lead-based paint often applied to ships’ bottoms — a heavy primer that wears well.