Get a load of what some people have said and done!

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This really happened in 1973.
My Dad's work colleague and his wife went on a European cruise ship and encountered rough seas the third day out.  The Mrs. became seasick and joined the throngs at the medical station.  The P.A. who saw her turned out to be a somewhat brusque German woman whose English was rather poor.  The P.A. gave her four pills wrapped in what appeared to be waxed paper. The oral instructions, as she best understood them, were to take one pill every six hours.  Returning to her cabin, she was astonished at the large size of the capsules, but managed to gulp one down with difficulty.  She lay on the bed, but felt increasingly worse.  After about half an hour, she rushed to the toilet and violently vomited everything including the pill, still undissolved. She felt somewhat better, but her husband insisted she take the next dose, having lost the first.  Again, the pill was swallowed with difficulty.  Thirty minutes later, another episode of vomiting ensued and the second pill came up, also undissolved.  By now, she was feeling weak and dehydrated, so her husband insisted upon returning to the ship's clinic.  They brought the unused pills along with the second, fished from the basin, and wrapped in a tissue.  
After another nauseous wait, they confronted the P.A. and tried to explain what had happened to the German.  The husband resorted to pantomime. and demonstrated the difficulty his wife had had in swallowing the pills. The German suddenly burst out laughing so hard she had to sit down.  Annoyed and mystified, the angry couple stared at her.  Upon slightly regaining her composure, she said with a heavy accent, "" You put ze  pill in ze vrong end!!"
It turned out the giant pill was a suppository!
To add insult to injury, several days later, the husband, a well known physicist, related the entire story in his wife's presence while dining at the captain's table!
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