Apropos the “pills” post: I don’t have anything against medicine for the sake of real illness or physical issues — if you’re sick, take something, which I learned from my family, too — my grandfather once felt under the weather, but he had to go out to work, so he loaded up a livestock vacination gun (imagine a half-sized, stainless steel caulking gun with a needle on the end) with a half-load of Bessie-brand antibiotics and jammed it in his thigh before heading outside for the day.

Stuck it right through the leg of his winter coveralls and his jeans (the needles on these things are tungsten and about 2 inches long) and squeezed the trigger.

Worked like a charm.