Vitamins and Superstition

[cjsmith]

OK, let's get the teasing and the "You Should"s out of the way: I eat Flintstones chewable multivitamins. They're the "Complete" kind, the ones that aren't too too awful for adults. Done now? Good, here's my story.

I like the orange ones best. The red ones are distinctly mediocre, and I have never liked purple. (Yes, red and purple are flavors. Eat a berry and a grape, then eat something red or purple. Completely unrelated, I tell you. Red and purple are separate flavors in their own right.)

I've developed a little predictor of my day. I tip over the bottle and get a vitamin. If it's orange, which I like, I say I'll have a good day. If it's purple, which I dislike, I call it a gray day. If it's red, I'll have a Red-Letter Day, which could be good or bad but won't be boring.

There. I feel sure every single reader of this journal desperately needed to know that.

Comments

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

That's a really cool ritual. I would take children's vitamins myself, if I didn't like the taste quite so much. I'm worried that I'd eat the whole bottle and OD on them.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I do indeed like the taste. When I bought my first bottle of 'em I ate two. Then I decided it would be smart to stop. :-)

I chew Vitamin C tablets too, on the rare occasions I spike my dosage of C. Sooo much better than swallowing a pill whole.

[hermit-crab.livejournal.com]

I think it's a childhood thing. As a kid, I loved the taste of those chewable vitamins so much, and then duh, my mom would only let me have one, which made me want them that much more. Forbidden fruit complex, I suppose.

I mean, I could just eat sweetarts or something, but they don't taste as good.