What is Grosser than Gross?

I used to think that cutting your child's toenails and having one or two land in your mouth was grosser than gross... I was wrong.

When I first arrived in Tokyo last August, I put a medicine cup next to my pill bottle so that it would be easy to drink water with my daily pill.

Then came the day, 5 months later when I saw that same cup I had been using to drink water from was next to the toilet... and I knew I did not put it there.

"That is strange" I said under my breath.

In absolute horror, I realized that my little drinking cup was next to Glenn's "Ketone" strips, the very same strips he uses to check the ketone levels of his URINE.....

"G L E N N!!!!"

I ran to him and confirmed what I already knew was true. He had been urinating in the very same cup I had been drinking from.

I cried. He laughed. Glenn has a sick sense of humor.

I got a new cup and in BOLD PERMANENT MARKER I wrote on it: "PILLS".

The next day I came home to find another cup next to mine. It too had BOLD PERMANENT MARKER on it... only this one said something a little different...

I laughed out loud. I finally saw the humor of the situation and it was really very funny.


The moral of the story? Label your urine cups, your pills cups, or preferably both.

An interesting sidenote is after drinking from a urine cup for 5 months, I never got sick. I only got sick after I discovered I was drinking from a urine cup.

Sick, sick, sick.