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by thaumasiotes 606 days ago
> Jumping on you, bleeding, having a nightmare, making possibly-chocking-sounds, running away with your pills, vomiting on the floor, etc. will definitely take priority over whatever you thought you were going to do after waking up.

No, you're just desperately hoping to imagine a scenario that might make it difficult to take a pill with a one-minute take-it-now-or-die window. You're crazy, and you should try to refrain from arguing like that.

The only one of the things you mentioned that could even take priority over a scheduled pill is choking, though you should know that choking doesn't make a sound -- the whole problem with choking is that it blocks airflow -- so if the kid is making sounds, they're not choking. If your kid runs away with your pills, first, that implies that you keep them somewhere your kid can get them (?!), and second, catch them and take the pills back.

Most of what you mentioned is random nonsense that wouldn't even interfere with you. If a little kid jumps into you while you're swallowing a pill, you can just... keep swallowing. If they throw up on the floor, there's nothing time-sensitive about that in any way.

> I feel you don't have young kids then.

I don't, but then again, I have a brother and sister who were born when I was 16. I seem to have more relevant experience than you do. Learn to tell the difference between an emergency and a nothing.

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This comment is dismissive and needlessly insulting. Calling people crazy is a surefire way to stop them from listening. But I get some amusement from imagining the look on my wife's face if she saw me leaving a vomit-covered rug to go and take some vitamin pills.
> But I get some amusement from imagining the look on my wife's face if she saw me leaving a vomit-covered rug to go and take some vitamin pills.

That is because you know and she knows that the vitamins are unimportant.