I don't understand why it's so hard to find medicine, of ANY kind, in Holland. I mean seriously, they seem to go out of their way to make it very easy for you to buy commodities such as weed, magic mushrooms of all sizes colours and flavours, you can even get peyote over the counter. But a simple anti-flu fizzy tablet drink? Forget about it.
I just walked in the blistering cold, to the biggest supermarket, naively thinking that I may find some kind of anti-flu thing or maybe even a Panadol. Think again amy. I inspected every single thing on the shelf that might have slightly resembled what I was looking for, but they have absolutely no type of medicine.
Ok fine so the supermarket is weird. But so how the heck am I supposed to find some simple medicine at 10 pm? The only other thing open was the night shop of the petrol station. Ok so feeling very confident for some reason I decided to try it.
After asking the man working there if he spoke English, given his affirmative reply, I proceeded to explain that I was looking for an anti-flu medicine. A what? He looked at me as though I was asking him if he would like to pick my nose. You know... something you take when you feel a cold coming on? A high power mix of honey lemon pain killers and who knows what else. A freaking anti-flu tablet damnit! No, there doesn't exist any kind of medicine for flu. What! Yes there is! And he said: Yeah there is.. but it doesn't work anyway. Don't you know that research has shown that the best thing for a flu is just a little bit of water and salt? And sleeping.
Oh. Man.
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