If you've got M&M's in one hand and advil in the other, keep track of which is which.

I had a headache so I went to Christina's office to get some advil. And she always has candy, so I was eating some M&Ms while she was showing me a recipe she was going to cook for her cooking club. I got distracted by the hideous concept of lemon mint shrimp cheese sauce and just started throwing M&M's into my mouth while discussing the recipe. And eventually the only small round objects in my hands were advil, but I didn't think of that.

Chewing an advil - especially when you're expecting chocolate - is truly a vile experience. It required copius amounts of water and gum to mitigate the damage.

The funny part is that I didn't associate the terrible chalky texture and acrid taste with the advil immediately. In fact, I had totally forgotten that I had advil in my hand. I was just trying to think of how this M&M could taste so wrong. "What am I eating?" I asked with what I'm sure was a rather pathetic look on my face.