*applause* very good work. I liked it. It was a little crazy there w/ the gun..but the characters were deffinatly interesting. I liked the repeated phrases in this. Keep it up.

wow!! that is so good!hee hee i like Desiree, she sounds cute ^_^ i love that kind of accent, i guess it's 'cos you don't get it much in Englandso good!! but one thing... i think there's a typo near the beginning... where is says "never quite replaced my construction worker’s salary", should that be a capital N? sorry if im wrong ^_^;anyway this fic was so good! one-shot? i kinda want to read on but at the same time its good as a one-shot... you gonna leave it? :Sanyways, i love it!

p.s... your so much better than me :P haha

A nice short story, slightly snappy style but it suits I think. Not as ironic as I would have imagined though. Walking down the street and getting shot isn't exactly something he can blame on asprin. I also don't appreciate the 'what logical man wouldn't be carrying a gun' statement, that is just asking for trouble.

If you want a real medical irony here's something I just happen to know. Thalidomide. You may be too young to know, but thalidomide was once perscribed as a cure for morning sickness to pregnant mothers, the drug caused major deformations of the feotus that resulted in children being born with stunted arms and legs. The drug was banned in the western world. In Brazil they use it to treat leprosy, which it does very well, as a result of Brazilian lepers living instead of rotting alive a whole new generation of thalidomide babies are being born. I wouldn't call that kind of thing humor personally.