Some days I sit back and wonder about some of the bizarre habits that we as humans keep. Well, not so much bizarre in the idea that they're kind of weird, more bizarre in the kind of "what was the first person thinking when they did this the first time?"

Who was so desperate for a buzz that they took perfectly good tobacco rope and smoked it for the nicotine (or hemp rope for the high)? Who was it that first figured out soured and fermented grapes could be made into wine? Or as Jeff Foxworthy once pointed out; "What was the first guy who made scrambled eggs thinking? 'Hey Dave, you see that thing that just fell from that chicken's ass? Bring it and a frying pan over to the fire, I got an idea....'"

Here for the last two months I've been battling an ear infection. I've been on at least four different heavy-duty prescription anti-biotics to combat it, and one prescription strength antihistamine, and I'm still having issues with it. I was in Wal-Greens the other day looking through the cold and allergy section for Dimetap Allergy pills (Dimetap is supposed to contain brompheniramine, the main constituent of the prescription Lodrane I was recently prescribed and seems to be the only thing that actually helps). Didn't see the Dimetap pills, but I did see... the Wal-greens brand Neti-Pot kit.

For those of you who don't know what it is, a neti-pot is a small pot shaped like those old brass oil-lamps you always pictured Aladin's Genie popping out of as a kid. This one is made of plastic, and you mix up a saline solution in it. And then... you tilt your head forward with one cheek down, jam this thing in your nose, and breath through your mouth while the saline pours through your nasal cavity and out your other open nostril.

I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. Go to youtube and and type in "neti pot demo" and see it for yourself.

I did it this morning. It kind of feels like taking in a good snoot-full of ocean water by accident while swimming, and if you're not careful you can easily get choked up. But the instructions that came with mine tell you to blow your nose after you do each nostril... and my head opened right up. The pressure on my left ear drum was opened up enough that it didn't feel like someone pressing the tip end of an icepick into it, and I could actually BREATHE after doing it.

But now as I sit here, I've got to ask... what was going through the mind of the first individual who did this? I get that this dates back to Ancient India, but still... wtf dude?!