Follow-up story re: my hemorrhoid discovery last week.
I go to Walgreens to get suppositories, Preparation H and some Metamucil to help me drop deuces more smoothly. The hemorrhoid stuff is on the bottom shelf, so I squat down and I'm looking at a million different products. My head is spinning.
Just then, I notice someone getting in a catcher's stance and he is now squatting right beside me. I can tell before he even speaks that he's a little "off"...
he's got the tell-tale fivehead. Our conversation goes as follows:
Him: "You got one, huh?"
Me:
Him: "A hemorrhoid. You got one?"
Me: "
And how!"
Him: "I get them all the time because I go to the bathroom a lot."
Me: "I see."
At this point I can tell he isn't seriously mentally handicapped. He's what you would call a
functioning adult. He's not going to qualify for the Special Olympics, but you also wouldn't hire him to mow your lawn.
He proceeds to point out every hemorrhoid cream that worked for him, and cautioned me about the ones that didn't.
Perhaps the strangest encounter I've ever had.