Did she give herself a gold star?

By now everyone’s heard of Airborne, the tablet you’re supposed to take to prevent catching a cold when you’re in a room full of people. I’ve tried it before, didn’t really like the weird “lemon”-esque flavor, and I don’t know whether it worked or not. I’ve still gotten colds.

The thing that I think is strange about this product is how they’ve really pushed the fact that the formula for Airborne was invented by a substitute second-grade school teacher. Did she come up with it during story time, or maybe during recess? Maybe she mixed up a bowl of unidentifiable cafeteria food and stumbled upon the formula? Perhaps the reason why it didn’t work for me was because it wasn’t invented by, you know, a team of doctors, or scientists in a research lab...someone whose career is centered around creating medicines that actually help people.