Thanks for Googling for me, le n! That needs its own acronym. TFGFM!

Medications such as some antibiotics, prenatal vitamins and antidepressants, as well as drugs used to treat high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and kidney stones

Not taking any of those. I do take regular non-prenatal vitamins, though.

Oral problems, including oral infections such as gingivitis or periodontitis, tooth infections, and poor oral hygiene

Ew. I've seen my dentist recently and not been given warnings of any such things, so I think I'm good there.

Hm. I just started taking Centrum multivitamins again, which I used to take back in my 20s (when I was healthy; note to self, don't stop doing the things you do when you're healthy). And I didn't for a couple days, and today I did again...hm. Possible culprit? What's in both prenatal vitamins and Centrum that could cause a metallic taste in the mouth?

I hate the feeling either during or after being pranked for me, and I don't get anything out of anyone else experiencing it. Scroogey McScrooge, for sure.

Me too, ita !. I hate practical jokes and pranks. Some are harmless enough, but there are too many people who can't tell the difference between "harmless joke" and "how could you think that was remotely funny?". People who think Punk'd is the best show ever. (Disclaimer: I have never seen Punk'd.)

Continuing my serial act, my new heat pump system will be installed on Wednesday! Just in time for the hot weather, apparently.

I despise practical jokes and will foil them if given the chance. One old workplace was horrible for that sort of thing: "joke" firings, moving people's cars and not admitting it while the person is calling the cops to report it stolen, etc. I was widely held to be a miserable person with no sense of humor--except to the people who I warned about what was going on.

What's in both prenatal vitamins and Centrum that could cause a metallic taste in the mouth?

Iron?

Fooling people on purpose is not funny.

Yeah, I don't see the point of a practical joke if its purpose is to cause anxiety, panic, etc. in another person. I'd go so far as to say that's morally wrong.

"joke" firings,

Good lord, that's one of the worst things I've ever heard of.

Yeah, I don't see the point of a practical joke if its purpose is to cause anxiety, panic, etc. in another person. I'd go so far as to say that's morally wrong.

Totally.

When my department used to prank each other, we'd do things like replace someone's paper clips with tic-tacs. Or putting a plush Fimble in the sales director's office chair while he was on vacation. Nothing mean.

Someone I used to work with always had the same CD playing (on speakers). Not only the same CD, but it seemed that every time I went into his office, the same section was playing.

One day when he was out at lunch I replaced his Vivaldi Four Seasons with a bagpipe and drum CD. He laughed, I gave him his CD back, and life went on (with the same damn music playing).

I worked with a guy who kept leaving his laptop on his desk when he left for the day, even though that was against company policy and in a building that had had a series of thefts of things like purses women left in their offices. Finally, a co-worker cured him of that by changing the alert sounds to the Meg Ryan orgasm-faking.