Time goes by so slowly for those who wait

[venta]

For the best part of a fortnight I've been intermittently coughing and hacking and spluttering and generally sounding like dying sealion. But without the ability to balance a ball on my nose (I tried).

In among the many apologies to my colleagues for the godawful noises, I mentioned the likelihood of gold watches.

Everyone looked at me funny. Again.

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It never was a gold watch, by the way.

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[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

From the wonderful world that was my grandad:
For headaches, we'll chop off your head and replace it with a red cabbage.
For general illness, we'll put you in a sack and shake you up.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of what my nextdoor neighbour used to say: we'll fill you full of toffees and raffle you.

That was more for being generally exasperating or mischievous, though, not illness-related.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

"Cut off your head and sew on a cabbage" was my Nana's answer to everything from migraine to grumpiness. I wonder if it came from a radio show or something, given that I've heard it from other people's grandparents too. Or perhaps they were just really strange in the first half of last century. :)

"Cough it up, it might be worth something" was what we got, so I assume it has a similar origin to the gold watch version.