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tlvop It's interesting, how a family develops an association and a loyalty to a product.
I've always known Icy Hot existed--after all, you see ads about it all the time, and it is bright and obvious on drugstore shelves. But my house has always, always had Bengay. My Aunt Donna, my mother's sister, grabs a Bengay from her cabinet to give neck/backrubs. My Aunt Joy and my Uncle John, my mother's sister and brother, in Papua New Guinea and Some Wartorn African Region (it changes nearly weekly) respectively, complain less about their lack of usual amenities and more about the fact that if their muscles ache they can't find any Bengay.
I am thinking about this because my legs are burning pepperminty fierce and the smell is all over my hands, and it feels quite at home. My grandpa even wrote a jingle about it, I think he meant to mail it in before he died but he never did. I've caught myself humming it quite a few times.
Hey, Bengay, can you help me today?
I've got a pain and it won't go away.
The doctor reccomended me to you...
So hey, Bengay, won't you help me?
Nostalgia? Is weird.
I've always known Icy Hot existed--after all, you see ads about it all the time, and it is bright and obvious on drugstore shelves. But my house has always, always had Bengay. My Aunt Donna, my mother's sister, grabs a Bengay from her cabinet to give neck/backrubs. My Aunt Joy and my Uncle John, my mother's sister and brother, in Papua New Guinea and Some Wartorn African Region (it changes nearly weekly) respectively, complain less about their lack of usual amenities and more about the fact that if their muscles ache they can't find any Bengay.
I am thinking about this because my legs are burning pepperminty fierce and the smell is all over my hands, and it feels quite at home. My grandpa even wrote a jingle about it, I think he meant to mail it in before he died but he never did. I've caught myself humming it quite a few times.
Hey, Bengay, can you help me today?
I've got a pain and it won't go away.
The doctor reccomended me to you...
So hey, Bengay, won't you help me?
Nostalgia? Is weird.
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on 2008-01-31 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-02 01:07 am (UTC):) Yeah, it does. It is all pepperminty and stuff. My whole dorm smells like it, :P. *hugs* Hope you are doing wlel, Melk-dear.
(sorry for the suckiness of my sentence structure because my brai is absolutely rotted through right now 4 hrs/night for past week about)
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on 2008-02-02 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-01 10:46 pm (UTC)But then again, I've only heard of Icy Hot because the people on my soccer team used it... my parents were of the Tylenol/Advil/Motrin-cure-all variety. Mm la.
*hugs, because if you are slathered in Bengay then you are probably in PAIN, which is BAD*