Gah! Smug healthy people!

[stoopbeck]

So I was sick. One of the things that annoys me the most about being sick is the smug healthy people.

"What's the matter?" they ask me.

"Oh, I'm just a bit sick."

"Weren't you sick last month?"

"Umm.... yeah. So?"

"Well. I'm NEVER sick. I had perfect attendance throughout my entire school life."

"Uh... you must be very proud..."

"Most people who miss classes are just slackers. They can't take the workload, so they 'get sick.'"

At this point I usually get a pointed look. "Ha," it seems to say. "Take that, slacker!"

Like I can help that I'm sick. I've been sick since I was born. Do you think I enjoy sniffles? Sore throats? Fevers? Coughing up a lung at least twice a year?

Do you think I enjoyed missing every single Valentine's Day party until I was 10, at which point we no longer had Valentine's parties, so it didn't really matter anymore? Or at least half of my grade-school field trips? Do you know how depressing it is to have to stay in bed all day?

I really don't see why perfect attendance is the end-all, be-all of existance. Yeah, so you're healthy. Yeah, so you never miss a class. I missed five days of class, and yet our grades are the same. What does that say?

It is completely ridiculous, this strange emphasis on a totally unnatural state of health. You haven't had a cold since you were five? Dude--- M. Night Shyamalan needs to talk to you. You've never had a fever? What kind of genetic freak are you?

So this is my response, you unnaturally healthy people who constantly mock my germ-riddled existance---I sneeze in your general direction. Let me take a sip out of your glass. No, I don't think I'm contagious... Oh, let me shake your hand... *cough hack wheeze* Oh, my bad...

Comments

[armyguardbrat.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel alex....i'm another one of those unfortunate germ riddled people. I've been chronically sick for god knows how long. It's weird i've been sick every valentine's day too and halloween too. I stopped tricker treating when i was like 8 cause i was sick every year after that. In high school i missed so much school that they tried to kick me out and put me in a "SPECIAL" school of course they couldn't cause i had straight As despite missing 300+ days in the four years. I get all the say stuff...your sick AGAINNNNN!!! well stay away from meeeeeee. i don't want to catch it.

My favorite was from teachers......"if your sick you really shouldn't be in school"
then if i were to miss school due to being sick "you really need to push yourself to come to school even if you don't feel good"

Dude! We are so twins!

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

GOD! I KNOW! That always annoyed me... make up your minds, teachers! And I'm glad to know there's more of us germy people out there.... Germy people of the world, unite! Another holiday that always got messed up was Christmas... yeah, sure, it was at home, but I always had the world's worst cold... Coughing up a lung while waiting for Santa isn't on my fun list...

Re: Dude! We are so twins!

[armyguardbrat.livejournal.com]

OMG i know....every christmas i had a sore throat and by the end of the week (new years) i'd have full blown bronchitis. There was one year that i literally almost broke a rib coughing. I would cough so bad that my muscles and cartilage around my lung and ribs would get separated from my rib cage. It was soo PAINFULL!!!!

Re: Dude! We are so twins!

[thelasttoknow03.livejournal.com]

Owwwwww!

Yeah, I can relate. We have a home video from Christmas when I was about seven or eight years old. I'm opening presents and hacking my head off. From off the screen, my dad asks, "Did Santa bring you that cough for Christmas, Samantha?" And I was like, "Noooo. I'm sick."

So I feel the pain guys!