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Filling In The Gaps — For Writing That Doesn’t Fit

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“I Bought You a Gift — It’s a Pill Cutter,” My Wife Said, Snickering Gleefully.

“Oh fuck off,” I replied, “Just fuck right off …”

Uvebruce
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5 min readFeb 8, 2025

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My new pill cutter and my tablet collection. Photos by Author.

She did fuck off … to the next room, snickering all the way. Because she knew my feelings about things like pill cutters.

It’s like monogrammed material handkerchiefs or lounge shirts. Nobody wants a pill cutter or any piece of monogrammed clothing. Ever. Unless you’re Lando Norris or Tiger Woods, and building a brand.

Calling a pill cutter a gift is sacrilegious. It is at best an implement. A tool, given by a bigger tool.

Now that’s funny … tool.

People who own pill cutters, and things like pill cutters, should be neutered — this includes women. Which I realise is medically quite difficult, but where there is a will, there is a way.

The heart surgeon gave me the smallest tablet ever made, with the clear instruction that I am only to take half of it daily. This has become my wife’s entertainment for the day.

She arranges herself on a chair in front of me with popcorn and a Diet soda and counts the embolisms forming on my forehead as I attempt to split the atom with my hands. She finds this extremely funny.

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Pitfall
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Published in Pitfall

Filling In The Gaps — For Writing That Doesn’t Fit

Uvebruce
Uvebruce

Written by Uvebruce

Brand Nerd. Waiting for the fat lady to sing ! Dyslexic - is it there or their. Passionate about making time to just think!! Sadly thinking hasn’t helped much.

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