Today, after a 20-minute conversation, I'm still unable to convince my grandmother that Tylenol and Acetaminophen are the same thing. I just graduated med school. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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Grumpy Jack 27
Just stop trying. Let her be an ignorant dumbass. Congrats for graduating Med school.
wysegirl 24
did you show her the bottles where she could read the ingredients?
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Grumpy Jack 27
Just stop trying. Let her be an ignorant dumbass. Congrats for graduating Med school.
RichardPencil 32
They're not. Tylenol is acetaminophen with 5G microchips in them that let Bill Gates track you. "They" don't want you to know that ;)
wysegirl 24
did you show her the bottles where she could read the ingredients?
bigredmonkeybutt 30
Why does it even matter?
Earl_KarmasBitch 36
Presumably she wanted Tylenol and he had acetaminophen but couldn't get her to accept it. Meaning that one of them had to go out and get Tylenol. I'd definitely be annoyed if I was asked to go out and get something I already had.
2deployments1divorce 11
Could have wanted to take both.
DanielleinDC 34
Because if she takes a medicine with acetaminophen in it and takes a Tylenol, she could overdose. If she consumes alcohol, it could really **** up her liver.
rotflqtms_ 21
Next time you have tylenol, show her. I'm sure googling "the generic name for tylenol" won't help if she doesn't even trust what you verbally say. Can she see to read a bottle? I'd waste the gas and take her to the pharmacy to show the tylenol bottle. If that fails (because she can't see it), ask the pharmacist what the generic name for tylenol is. Make sure she hears the entire exchange.