Confessions of a Chemist

Today i had fitar at my aunt's. To sum up the family, she is a Prof of Psychology and also a psychiatrist, her husband is a chemist, her three daughters are nuts in their unique ways. A visit to their home is never boring.

Aaaanyway, today we were talking about how their neighbors from 3 floors down were diagnosed with swine flu and currently hospitalized.. shock!! it's scary riding in an elevator you know once carried swine flu traces. i just sneezed. Rabena yostor.

So my uncle, being the chemist he is, was telling us about this remedy he 'made' (literally, in the lab) that would boost immunity to H1N1. He made it by extracting the nutrients from something-something and adding a solution of something-something to it then letting it ferment for 12 hours.

Not only had he made it, he had a container right in the fridge. It was black, smelled like drainage water mixed with licorice and henna. Awful.

He tried to get everyone to taste it. He forced some to taste it. His first victim was daughter #2's fiance. Poor guy, serves him right for being so polite. Second victim was daughter #1; this time he added some Pepsi to improve taste. When it was my turn i convinced him i'd rather catch swine flu then touch the remedy.

And now thinking about it, swine flu isn't so bad. now everyone's been saying this, but, it IS just a flu! you catch it, you stay away from people, you rest up and let your immune system fight it, and you're back at work a week later.

The way that drink looked and smelled, if it does prevent swine flu, I'm sure it can cause other traumas, at least psychological aftermath of drinking something so disgusting.