This post is little more than a rant, so be forewarned. For those that still want to read :), here goes...
Maybe it's just that I'm in the last semester of NS, HESI is a day away, and my allergies are killing me, but today just seemed to be the Day of the Idiot.
This afternoon in a peds class, my allergies started flaring up again so I had to blow my nose on a few Kleenex during class...I discreetly took care of business, folded up my tissues, and proceeded to listen to the lecture. Then we had a short break. Upon returning to my desk, another student calls my name, states that I need to get up to throw my tissues away, because she has to look across my desk in order to see the lecture notes, and she's just grossed out by my Kleenex. (I realize how petty all this is, yes). This is a girl who routinely displays a very sour, negative attitude; never has anything pleasant to say; and is always just skirting the line when it comes to being disrespectful to teachers. She was just incredibly belligerent and confrontational in how she spoke to me (not so much what she said but how she said it), so I sort of just looked at her, tried to decide how to respond, and then decided NOT to respond as I might say something I'd later regret. So once my back is turned, then I hear "Oh, well, just ignore me. Go ahead and be gross then." I didn't get up, by the way, because class was just about to resume, my tissues were in no way a public health hazard, and I didn't particularly feel like taking orders from this individual. And yes, at the end of class, I disposed of everything and cleaned off my desk area.....
Yes, I realize how silly and petty all this is, but it just GALLS me how some people can be. I just don't see how anyone could possibly be grossed out by a couple of partially-used, folded up tissues; beyond that, why would anyone make a big stinking deal out of it?? It's not like I had green goop smeared all over the classroom. She just found one extra thing that she could make a scene over, and then went to town with her snotty (hah!), belligerent, immature attitude. Sigh. This isn't worth all the energy that I've expended thinking and writing about it, but it feels good to rant.
I can't wait for May. There will always be immpossible people out there, but at least when NS is over, I won't have to deal with this particular one anymore!
Thanks to all who are willing to commisserate with me.
smk1, LPN
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Sounds like you handled it well. Don't let people like these make you do anything that you don't want to.