Egregious, Efficacy and Other E Words

Leaving your home country heading to the blue, clear Caribbean waters of the Mexican east coast isn't so easy. Let me explain -
We were scheduled to leave out this past Monday, but Southwest allowed us to leave on a Sunday flight headed south for the same price so we changed our flight by one day. That was on Wednesday about 3pm. On Thursday by 4pm, I had Terry loaded up and was taking him to see PA Cerny in El Campo. He was feeling horrible with a sore throat, cough, stuffy nose...the works. He had no voice so I was to be his translator with PA Cerny. I did get to explain to her that Terry couldn't talk. When she found out our first stop was Playa del Carmen, that got her going. She loves PDC. Funny how quickly Terry got his voice back when young, cute PA Cerny came in the exam room and wanted to chat him up about PDC and Mexico!
She prescribed antibiotics and gave him a stern warning about how the efficacy of an antibiotic is affected by alcohol.
So when Sunday came, we gave extra big hugs to Harbor, Isla and later on to Kim who was sweet enough to drive us to the airport.
It was at the bar in the airport that all those 'E' words ended up in an entanglement. Terry recalled a time when a reprimand for "Egregious Behavior" led to a high-five instead of remorse and an apology. This is also where efficacy got entangled with efficiency and his prescription strength was now more efficient because of alcohol. 
We made it to Cancun and on to Playa. We checked into a darling hotel directly on the beach, and continued to increase the efficiency of Terry's antibiotic. We both got great massages from Cuban Dr. Jose who had the most magical fingers ever, ate wonderful food, walked, and mostly just vegged on the beach for several days before boarding the bus and arriving in Merida a couple of evenings ago.
Terry's voice is still not 100%, partly because of the efficacy/efficiency of his antibiotic and partly because of smoking those high-priced, hand-rolled cigars while lounging on the balcony overlooking the beach.   
If you ever get excruciating pain, get an antibiotic, entangle it with alcohol for excitement, head south on a plane, and increase the efficiency of the drug by decreasing the efficacy!  Works every time.