i will clarify what i meant in my post about the vitamin C.
i just got off the phone to tammy who asked me if i had written on the forum lately, and i read her the post i made about the vitamin C, and she did not understand it the way i meant it to be understood, and that leads me to think that i overestimate the clarity of what i post.
the vitamin C thing was a joke. tammy understood it to mean that the seal was already broken when i bought the bottle, but what i really meant was that the seal was broken because i had to break it in order to open the bottle. i was pretending to be caught in a moronic catch 22 situation where i was unable to use the tablets because i had broken the seal to get the bottle open, and also lamenting that if i had read the label before i opened the bottle, then i would not have opened the bottle, and so the tablets would still be usable.
whatever. i sometimes believe "brevity is the soul of wit", and i feel it ruins the joke to explain it, but on the other hand, i guess most of mine are not obviously and clear, so anyway, i decided to explain the vitamin C post.