Oh, I'm sick of this.

When you buy little boxes of pills – pretty much any kind of pills, be they painkillers, antihistamines, indigestion tablets, or something more serious – the box contains one or two sheets of plastic with the pills embedded in them, plus a sheet of paper giving the instructions. That sheet of paper is typically bent in a U-shape around the pill sheets.

Therefore, if you open the box at the end furthest from the bend of the U, you can take out a sheet of pills easily. Open it at the wrong end, and you are confronted with the instruction sheet, and the most convenient way to get at the pills is to close it again and open it at the other end.

I honestly cannot remember the last time I opened a box of pills and found I had gone to the right end first. I'm convinced I get the wrong end nearly every time, which means I'm doing significantly worse than I would if I flipped a coin each time to decide which end to open it at.

In fact, perhaps I should actually start flipping a coin.