7th grader comes in to my office: frequent flier

student: when i twist my knee this way it really hurts.

me: dont twist it that way, just walk and stand normal

student: what do i do when it hurts

me: is it hurting now?

student: no

me; so then why are you here?

student: can i have a cough drop instead?

me: why?

student: cause i wanted to chew on something

me: chew on your knee, it'll take your mind off the pain

nah - i've said practically the same thing

LOL! I've said all of that before... minus the "chew on your knee" part. LOL

I think it was a perfect response!

Thes kids make me laugh so much. spend the majority of my day laughing

WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... this just made my day

Lol!!! This was too funny!

In this case, if you were my child's school nurse and he/she wasted your time like that I would be laughing with you and at my child.

ROFLMBO!!!!!

Thanks for that!

funny! And nope you're not harsh.

No, not too harsh.

My tongue in cheek advice to teachers was not to send a student to my office unless they were bleeding out their eyeballs.

Then...

You guessed it...I had a precious little Kindergartener who was bleeding from her eyes. (Actually her eyelids which were wracked with eczema.)

So my criteria changed to coughing up a lung :)

reading that made my day!

Now thats funny!

I used to have a health clerk that would send the FF's off with a cheery "go forth and learn".