As always this has not been proofed for errors.
My dad, his brothers and all the neighborhood boys loved to play army. They would gather in the woods just outside of town. Everyone had their assignments, some of the guys made a lean to, some dug the trenches and others crafted the weapons out of sticks.
Pop was the army doctor. He made a doctors kit from items he had found around the house and barn. Makeshift splints, bandages, and various candy for medicine was all included in his kit. It didn’t take long for the other kids to learn that if they were hurt pop would prescribe a peppermint candy or tootsie roll for the injury.
One weekend all the boys were heading out to the woods for a day of playing army. Pop needed to fill his kit with candy but was unable to find enough to get through a day of what was sure to be full of injury and illness. He remembered seeing a chocolate bar in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. He figured he could break it up in small pieces and make it last.
As the day went the boys would visit Dr. Bob. For a few hours everything was going well. One by one the boys started feeling ill. The boys started coming to Dr. Bob with an all new set of symptoms: cramps. Dr. Bob prescribe more chocolate and away the boys went.
I’m sure you have figured out that Dr. Bob was handing out ex-lax as the prescribed medicine. Later that night the phone at my grandparent’s house started ringing. All the mothers from around the neighborhood wanted to know what kind of medicine had Dr. Bob been prescribing.
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