DOES GRAVOL REALLY UNDERSTAND THE FINE ART OF HURLING?

There is a commercial on TV that advances the concept that vomiting is a surprise sucker punch that Gravol will cure or quell. Gravol probably works pretty well, but the commercial omits the evolution of hurling in the average healthy human being.

Newborns and young children are very susceptible to bouts of spontaneous sickness for one good reason: Everything is new to them including walking, talking and vomiting while duking it out with childhood illness or horrific baby food choices.

The first signal a kid gets is nausea followed in lightning-fast order by vomiting. The gag reflex is razor sharp and kids launch much faster than the space shuttle. Sometimes kids don’t even need a bug to get sick. I could get about 10 ft out of the driveway in the family sedan before the urge to purge kicked in when I was a kid embarking on a family vacation.

Hand me an Archie comic and a middle seat in a hot non-climate controlled car and watch the fun.

My Hall of Fame moment occurred during lunch in my elementary school when I managed to decorate the school gym floor with a little spontaneous hurling show. I got to go home but a different old school education system meant that my twin brother had to clean up the mess.

Like I said- a different era.

Anyhow, I eventually turned the corner on uncontrollable moments of nausea as I got older. Illnesses of the childhood variety disappeared with maturity and I learned to control the instant-on nature of nausea in adulthood.

Most of my adult nausea moments have a heavy element of alcohol involved in the process. Somewhere, in the middle of the evening on through to halfway through the next day, after a night of extreme merriment, lies a golden opportunity to hurl.

The trick is to avoid a rookie error of early childhood-like spontaneous hurling during and after the drunken adventure. Practice and experience will generally cure the warp drive acceleration from stomach to the outside world until a person can reach an appropriate porcelain holding facility.

Which brings me back to my original point: Most of us have gotten better at the fine art of hurling and it wouldn’t hurt Gravol to acknowledge this fact in their commercials. Most of us would like to feel that certain sense of accomplishment in life and Gravol has taken that proud moment of self-control achievement away from us.

We want it back.

COMMENTS

BILLI:"like crying,and puking....you cant keep all that "..." inside! Its just NOT good for you.
With ya buddy! "

DENNIS:"Same here, man. All this "Ill, take a pill" krap we see on TV isn't the solution, it's the problem. If you're throwing something up, there's probably a reason for it."