I Don't Make This Stuff Up

One of the local TV channels--Channel 6--has a website that I check every day.  They posted a story today about teenagers putting lip balm on their eyelids to help them get high, or stay high, from drugs. According to the story, the kids call it "beezin".  At the end of the story is the obligatory warning from health officials that, although lip balm on eyelids might feel good, it can cause eye inflammation and swelling.  I suppose laws will now be legislated to regulate the sale of Chapstick.

I read that story and laughed and laughed.  Putting lip balm on one's eyelids will only give one greasy eyelids!  It's the same story with people who claim that putting Vick's Vaporub on the bottom of one's feet and wearing socks over that at night will stop a cough.  Yeah, right.  But the funniest part, to me anyway, is the fact that the medical police felt that they needed to weigh in on the topic.  Do we really need doctors to tell us things that are common sense issues?  How stupid can things get??

When I had a ruptured brain aneurysm, my sister asked the doctors what could have caused it.  Instead of answering the obvious (that no one really knows), they asked her if I drank.  She said yes, that I drink white wine.  Well, then...white wine causes brain aneurysms!  This is in the same way that smoking causes ingrown toenails and skin tags.  Get it??

I keep shaking my head.  As Dr. Phil says, common sense just isn't that common anymore!