Pounding The Keyboard

       They dated once, and after that, she refused to see or talk to him again—he tried to kiss her and touch her without her permission on their first date. She started blocking him but he didn’t give up—he used 44 phone numbers to repeatedly call her. He probably thought that her blocking him   was her one way of demonstrating her affection for him. ROFL. He also would give her gifts like groceries, a ring and a card with the message “for the love of my life” written on it.      He also bought her plane ticket so she could go with him to China (his homeland), and would mock her religious beliefs (she’s a Muslim).      She had him arrested for stalking but was given bail, provided that he would not harass her again. But after his release, he continued to stalk her, asking her to give up her police complaints, sending her disturbing messages, and “could they be friends with benefits?”      He was arrested again after she approached her—and was sentenced to 28 months in jail.

       After wrestling with a nasty cold for the last few days, I woke this morning with a nasty cough. Already feeling numb and nauseous from taking too many cold tablets, I decided to look for some home remedy for coughs and found the usual suspects: steam, ginger, hot fluids, and a not-so-unusual one: chocolates.      According to Google, “chocolate is thick and sticky like honey and it calms down the nerves and quickly soothes a cough. Chocolate may be the perfect cough medicine, because in addition to its perfect consistency, it contains compounds that have other health benefits, too.”      Another Google entry states that: “chocolates, especially the dark ones, contain a substance called theobromine whose consumption causes more effective cough inhibitors than common codeine syrup. This substance is also found in tea, which can help prevent the cough.”      Luckily, we still have a few chocolate bars in the house (Lindt, Maltesers, and Toblerone) so I immediately grabbed