Favorite sayings

[NursesRmofun]

What are some of your favorite sayings, cliches....

Just one I thought of or heard recently...I'm ..."like jello...hard to nail down".

[brownbook]

The grass is greener where you water it.

They knew the job was dangerous when they took it.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

When pigs fly.

I think it's the mental image more than anything.

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

They knew the job was dangerous when they took it.

And now I want to see if there are any episodes of "Super Chicken" on uTube!!

[amoLucia]

"You can be NEXT, but you can't be NOW."

To beckysue - just FYI, there is an old comedy movie, 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil' with Gene Wilder (deaf) and Richard Pryor (blind).

To emtb2 - I actually used your phrase once at NH with problems, but good staff who were good folk. Crazy day and State shows up. New administrator, nice guy was running around exasperated, and sighed in desperation to me "what next?". I answered "it could be raining!".

We had building maintenance issues with a leaky roof, BIG TIME! The day before rained heavily and we had multiple rain buckets all over the unit. It could have been worse, it could have been raining that day!

[nars_wannabe]

"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more." :wideyed:Dick Wilson

[nars_wannabe]

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

"is this the hill you want to die on?"

"no sir thats not how this works, you cannot fire me. But believe me, im just as upset about it as you are"

"if anyone is looking for me, tell them i went on my lunch break and slipped into a coma"

just a few things i say almost on the shiftly basis

Those are excellent!

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Like that one!

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

I like when I hear one of my fellow co-workers use the term "cattywampus." Example: "Will you help me reposition my patient? He's all cattywampus in the bed." I had never heard that term until an agency nurse came to work at our facility.

That is a new one on me!

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

In daily use are:

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Could be worse, could be raining.

Need housekeeping in room xx with pliers and a blowtorch.

Pliers and a blow torch! Oh yeah....I'm there. haha

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

Not on my shift! (a frequent one)

[brownbook]

I know this is an oxymoron but I live by the words...."If not me who, if now now when".

Yet I understand when, "It is not my monkeys, not my circus"...is very appropriate.

I hate it when people just ignore or walk by a "problem", from a loose door knob (find a screw driver or notify maintenance), to an obtunded person on the sidewalk, (yeah I know probably a passed out drunk homeless person...but you don't know until you check).