My grandmother was a ruthless and callous bitch.
She said that headaches were the result of feeling guilty about something, so she refused to give aspirin until I confessed to all the bad things they’ve done.
Oh, and she’d scream this at me to make it worse.
Sure, I’d done something bad. I was a rotten shit.
But this was child abuse.
My other grandmother gave out Life Savers saying they were headache pills.
She had Dementia. Probably thought this was true.
I knew what they were, so the placebo effect didn’t work.
Plus, they were watermelon-flavored, which are disgusting.