What's different about prescription Vitamin D compared to the OTC stuff?

HUGE dose taken once a week.

My doctor called and said my vitamin D levels are low again

What you need is some sunshine, missy. I know a place...

What you need is some sunshine, missy. I know a place.

Still thinking about it, but I really don't do sunshine very well even when I am in a sunny place. A quick glance at the sun leaves me with new freckles and a burn.

Oh, for god's sake. I was just in the bathroom at work (we don't have one in our own office; it was the one all the offices on this floor share).

I don't know how long I was in there, but someone next to me flushed, washed her hands (from what I could hear), and then she said, "Ma'am, are you all right in there?"

I'm pretty sure I wasn't snoring or otherwise making sounds of distress, but I thought, well, she's just being kind, so I said, "I'm fine, thank you."

Which she followed up with, "Well, you've just been in there a long time, and that's not normal."

Okay. You inquired after my well-being, and I thanked you because I took it as a gesture of kindness despite any evidence on my part that I was NOT all right.

But then you follow up with a comment on the length of time I was on the john and further judge it to be not normal? NOT ON.

So I said (and I am not making this up), "Well, I have irritable bowel syndrome, so I have to be the one to determine what's a normal amount of time FOR ME to spent on the toilet. Would you like to hear about the symptoms that lead me to spend what you think is an abnormal amount of time on the toilet?"

She left.

Look, I know it was bitchy and ungracious (and vulgar), but seriously. The first question was unexpected but vague enough that I took it as a gesture of kindness. But then you decide for me what's an appropriate amount of time to spend on the shitter, and I have a problem with that.

But then you decide for me what's an appropriate amount of time to spend on the shitter, and I have a problem with that.

Yeah. WTF.

Once I was in a McDonnalds bathroom stall. A guy in there commented on how smelly my poo was. (He didn't use the word 'poo.')

That's not normal? WTF? I would have responded, "Well you're demonstrating an undue amount of interest in my toilet habits, and that's not normal."

OK, I'm not quite assertive enough to actually say that. But that's totally what I would want to say.

Teppy, good for you, that woman was way over the line.

"Well you're demonstrating an undue amount of interest in my toilet habits, and that's not normal."

I'd be tempted to say, "Ooooooh! I made a poo-poo! Come see! Come see my poo-poo!"

But I'd probably only say that if I was never going back there again.

I think it's awesome you had the presence of mind to say what you did, Steph! Seriously, WTF?!

Oh man, Steph, you were MUCH mire gracious than I would have been. I'm uptight about people trying to have conversations with me in the bathroom as it is.