I’m showing my age again. That title line is from a commercial from my callow youth, when I didn’t know what “Preparation H” was for and so I wondered why the hell he didn’t just scratch it, then. It seemed very unnatural to me to just yell out to his (formerly) sleeping wife “This itching! It’s driving me crazy!” without actually scratching it at the same time.
I got a bad sunburn on my scalp at the airshow last weekend. It started peeling yesterday and today I look like I’ve got leprosy. Every time I scratch I leave a shower of skin flakes on me and my surroundings. When I have to be with people, like in meetings or when I go to lunch later, I have to wear a hat so that I don’t gross people out, but that makes it even itchier.
I vividly remember that line, too. But are you sure it wasn’t from a Lanacaine commercial? What I remember about Preparation H commercials is the guy saying “Preparation H SHRINKS the swelling”. When he begins he is holding his hands about two feet apart. When he intones “SHRINKS” he moves them closer together by several inches. If his problem were that bad, he’d need Preparation H^3…