The several years of Ching inhaling mass quantities of food at unmentionable speed are now catching up to him.

(I was writing this during a Law and Order episode.  I felt the need for a disclaimer.  "The following story is NOT fictional and does depict any actual person or event" )

Recently Ching saw a doctor for some tightness in his chest.  Thankfully, (after I confirmed that the life insurance was paid up)  it wasn't any sort of attack or angina.  His tightness was due to heartburn.  While Ching is trying to figure out what cocktail of Prilosec and antacids will work best, the obvious needed to be addressed albeit slowly.  The several years of Ching inhaling mass quantities of food at unmentionable speed are now catching up to him.  It's like Father Time is kicking him in the ass saying..."Your fun is over...You're 40 soon, bitch."

While it may not sound like I am sympathic, I am.  And I am trying to help him with food choices...and apparently reading labels.

JCW:  "How was your day?  How are you feeling?"
CCW:  "Well, not so good.  I forgot my Tums at home...so I had to get some more.  I kind of did something stupid."
JCW:  (My ears perk up and I give him full attention. Give me some suga, CCW.)  "What happen?"  (Remember to furrow your brow with sympathy.)
CCW:  "Well, I went down to the little store in the building to get some Tums.  They were next to the mints."
JCW:  "Yeah?" (Jesus, JCW, watch the tone.)
CCW: "I ate the whole roll and kept feeling worse.  I bought the mints instead of Tums.
JCW:  "Whoa...you ate a whole roll of mints thinking they were Tums?"
CCW:  "Yeah..."
JCW:  "You didn't check what you were buying, or the label as you unwrapped them and put them in your mouth?  Didn't the strong minty taste as you were CHEWING them give you a red flag?"
CCW:  "Well..."
JCW:  "Didn't you miss the chalkiness? And aren't there 14 mints in a roll?"
CCW:  "I get the point...isn't it time to go to dinner now?" (He is thoroughly wishing that he never brought this up.)
 
Jesus Christ, I hope Ching doesn't come back in the next life as a young woman who carries both birth control pills and tic-tacs in her bag.