Opening a pills packet ALWAYS gives me the end with the folded instructions!

[Pawnless Endgame]

My repeat prescription is 4 different types of pills and 2 different eye drops. It doesn't matter if the eye drops bottle diagram is the right up or not or if the pill packet is showing the front artwork or the GP's dosage note on the rear bit, but I have a knack of opening the end that contain the instructions folded around the pills / eye drops bottle.

Today, ALL 6 opened at the instructions end. Like a loaded dice.

Is this some sort of gambler's fallacy where the roulette wheel spins in red, so I bet on black and continue to bet on black, but it always lands on red for the rest of eternity.

Anyone else getting this?

Lighthearted @[FnG]magnolia thread (although I can't seem to tag him).

 

[cyber69]

Yes, I opened a new packet of pills today and in my mind I expected to get the end with the leaflet and I did.

 

[Noxia]

Hope you pay for that prescription or I'll have to report you in the other thread.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I agree!

I opened a packet of antihistamines today….instructions side.

 

[AtreuS]

Its schrodinger's cat but with instructions.... while closed the instructions are at both AND neither end... once you open it becomes the end you opened

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Hope you pay for that prescription or I'll have to report you in the other thread.

I don't get free prescriptions. 6 x £9.65 is £57.90 every 4 weeks, so it makes sense to use a pre-paid certificate which is about £112 and it's for a year (13 trips to the chemist's).

 

[LOAM]

To balance this out, I never get the folded instruction end.

 

[Yaayuh!]

That’s the side you want, no?
First thing you do with a packet of pills is take the instructions out and chuck them.

 

[Conscript]

Try opening the box with your left hand. I think I read somewhere that they always put the folded end of the instructions toward the right, so with the box facing you, if you're right handed, you would tend to open that side first...thus you have to pull out the instructions before you get to the medication. Can't remember where I read it, and haven't tested the theory, so might be bobbins

 

[throwaway4372]

it may be just what the buttered cat paradox needs to make infinite clean energy viable.

 

[adidan]

Instructions are a bit pointless.

They all seem to say side effects may include everything you're taking the medication for.

Plus death.

 

[Zefan]

I reported this as a bug (alongside the USB the wrong way at first attempt, and also somehow after flipping it) but Simdev said that this is in fact a feature.

 

[adidan]

Has he just got new USBC pill packets then?

 

[LOAM]

Just don't open the end with the date and batch number on. Humans!

 

[Firegod]

Imagine the 100s of millions of bits of paper we could save if they didn't include the crappy leaflet inside. Just put a QR code on the box and scan for the info. And all this hurt would go away.

 

[something daft already!!]

A bit like dropping bread on the floor, always ends up buttered side down.

 

[firstborn]

Always the same with me and my free repeat prescriptions.

 

[Jono8]

It's because we live in some sort of simulation/construct that serves some sort of entity that lives off of human frustration and stress.

No other reasonable explanation for all this ****.

 

[Brazo]

Ha yes I always get the instructions even when I try not to…

 

[UTmaniac]

A bit like dropping bread on the floor, always ends up buttered side down.

Not if the non-buttered is stuck to the back of a cat that is dropped.

Will they spin indefinitely just above the ground?