Sense Of Time Has Really Decade

(After dinner on Christmas Eve, I get nastily sick. Since my family is gifted with quite rugged health we do not have any medicine at home. My mum calls our neighbors to ask if they have anything that might help. They have, I take it, and feel better. The next morning my mom confesses.)

Mom: “The pills I gave you were a bit beyond their best-before date.”

Me: “I don’t mind. At least they helped.”

Mom: “Well, the neighbors had two packages. One was off since the nineties and the other one expired in 2000. So I took the second one. After all, it was only three years off!”

Me: “Mom, it’s 2013…”