Monday, January 5, 2009

Lost in Space


It's wintertime, which means coughing, sneezing, wheezing, and other assorted unpleasant things will be happening to your face and its associated parts. The nose bone is connected to the lung bone, after all.


To relieve certain mucus-coated ailments you might reach for a box Mucinex, as Mint recently did. The pictures below are what she found (or, rather, didn't):



If you want to put some positive spin on these images, you could say that the clean and clear half of the box serves as a symbol of what your insides will look and feel like after taking Mucinex, but I suspect that even an optimist would concede this box is simply half-empty.

I have two points to raise regarding this brand of puffed-up phamesutical presentation. The first is a suggestion for the folks at Mucinex as to what they might put in the more vacant half of their pacakaging: this yellow card! My second point, and a more serious one, is that the first company to safely pacakage its cure for what ails me in a simple cardboard box (yes, that means no bottle) with no excess space wins my buisness forever.


Mucinex cautioned per Section B-1 for a questionable use of resources.

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