Pigheaded Pills and Other Personality Patent Medicine (Conversation Starter)
By Janet Grace Riehl • Nov 20th, 2007 • Category: Village CommonsIf you could choose some aspect of your personality to improve…and all it took was taking a pill, what would you choose? Choose something fun.
Pig-headedness, say?
Tell us the trait you’d like pills developed for to make you just a little bit nicer to be around. Just don’t make me agree with you. At least not until I take my Pigheaded Pills, okay?
Janet Grace Riehl is the author of "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary," a downhome family
love story beyond death told in accessible story poems. She's a member
of Author's Guild, registered with Poets and Writers, and widely
published in national literary magazines and several anthologies.
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Being late. I’d like a “Get Up and Go Right Now” pill” to get me out the door on time.
Actually, I have just stopped taking angry pills. It seems that every time I took one it acted like poison, and I expected someone else to die. I am not refilling my perscription.
Actually, I could use a brightly-colored assortment of pills for bossiness, obstinacy, opinionation (I just made up that word, and I like it), and interrupt-the-speaker-itis. Could they be flavored like butterscotch Life Savers, pretty please?
Yes, the butterscotch life saver interrupt-the-speaker-itis pills might be good…or maybe some pills to slip the person I’m speaking to so they might look my way to llisten.
A peppermint flavored ‘complainitis’ pill…in bright pink…to give me the pep I need to see the good drivers on the road and the kindness here and out there.
I’d take procrastinatitis, so I do things on schedule rather than when they are urgent. I’d also like some assertiviatis, which I hear will help me say “No” to work more often.