Ordinarily, I am an easygoing, laid back type person. However, there are two women, mother and daughter, that I am ready to KILL!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire
About 2 weeks ago, I caught a cold from my kiddos. I was coughing in class, as you might expect. I didn't have a fever.
I tape every lecture, so I KNOW how I sounded on the tape. I got choked on spit and of course, couldn't breathe. I was absolutely embarrassed. :imbar Then for the Renal test last Monday, I had another coughing fit. Tears rolled out of my eyes.
Friday, the daughter brought in a basket of cough drops. Set them on the table right in front of me!! :angryfire :angryfire She said that they were for anyone who wanted them, whether we needed them or not. Then she said "Please take them, the coughing is getting really annoying."
Everyone in the room KNEW she was talking about me. I chose to ignore her. I did NOT take any of the cough drops because I didn't need them.
Today, the girl who sits behind me was coughing, so the mother got up and handed her 3 cough drops. Then she turned back around and tried to hand me some. I handed them right back and said I didn't need them. She asked me to PROMISE that I wouldn't cough while we were taking the test!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire Of course I told her that I wasn't going to promise anything, but that I didn't want the cough drops.
Needless to say, I was upset. I took the Cardiac test and got 39/59 which is a 78%. We need an 80% to pass the course. I am so tired of this woman!
2 weeks ago, in clinical, she did the accu check on my patient. No big deal, I had done one, she hadn't. I went to meet the others in our group in the cafeteria, and teasingly said that she did my accu check. Her daughter was sitting there. I didn't think anything about it. It didn't upset me. In fact, I completely forgot about it. I had so many other things to do, she didn't cross my mind. The next day, she came over and sat in the chair next to mine in lecture. She told me that "She had gotten her feelings hurt, by what I had said." I had no clue what she was talking about.
I apologized to her, all the time thinking "OMG you are 47 yrs old, GROW UP!!"" :angryfire :angryfire I have tried everything I can think of to get along with these two. I am at my wit's end. I have BOTH of them in lecture AND clinical, 4 days aweek!! I keep telling myself 3 more weeks and I won't have to deal with them ever again.
I CAN'T wait until Thanksgiving. I need a break from them. OH yeah, I forgot to mention, she got the job I applied for. A tutor for the freshman nurses. I REFUSE to go in there and ask her for help!!
You know there are always one or two folks that seem to be particularly annoying. And why do they always sit by me??? lol
I usually try to diffuse it with humor.... when handed the cough drops I would have cheerily said " not today thanks, but when you pass the chocolate around I'm IN"! :chuckle
We have a group of girls that love to eat food from crinkly packages during lecture...... aaaaack! I can't hear a thing... so when it happens I move to another seat telling them "you guys are going to make me hungry"! They are going to continue anyway, I move to where I can hear and we still have a working relationship in class.
I know!!!!!!!!!! Do they HAVE to buy the CRUNCHIEST chips EVER while we're listening to barely audible breathe sounds over the mike? :chuckle
Gotta hate that in movie theatres too. For pete's sake....chew with your mouth shut. Wish my hearing wasn't so good. I'm a very easy going person but sometimes........
to me...I would never let this stuff bother me. Life is full of distractions and detractors. People who seem to love to bother as many people as they can...ignore them, otherwise they won.
Or of course you can invite them out into the parking lot and beat the snot out of 'em...:rotfl:
I know!!!!!!!!!! Do they HAVE to buy the CRUNCHIEST chips EVER while we're listening to barely audible breathe sounds over the mike? :chuckle
Gotta hate that in movie theatres too. For pete's sake....chew with your mouth shut. Wish my hearing wasn't so good. I'm a very easy going person but sometimes........
We can't eat or drink in lab but in the huge auditoriums we can. If we couldn't we'd have little emaciated nursing students dragging their feet around campus. :chuckle
I can't hear a thing... so when it happens I move to another seat telling them "you guys are going to make me hungry"! They are going to continue anyway, I move to where I can hear and we still have a working relationship in class.
lil' girl, LPN
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:rotfl: Well now maybe everyone is happy, you won't be coughing, and maybe she feels she had something to do with it
If she is interupting during lecture you should speak to the instructor and have he/she speak to her, you paid good money to hear instructor, not her.
I too will be on break in two days now, can't wait, after break we only have 2 weeks left in semester
Good Luck with your studies
Lil Girl