When The Man Is Sick
Men, we love you – really we do. Bless your hearts. But when you’re sick, you are at best ridiculous and at worst, well – just sick. Here’s the thing – get over it. Recently my husband got sick – AGAIN, but instead of going to the doctor, he decided he needed to ‘fight it off.’ The joy.
Day 1
Wow, they weren’t kidding with that cough syrup. I do feel dizzy.
It’s strong. How much did you take?
A tablespoon, just like it says.
It says to take a teaspoon.
No.
Yes. T-S-P stands for teaspoon.
Whatever. Tablespoon, teaspoon, same thing.
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Day 2
That cough medicine really worked last night. I’m going to take it again.
Okay, but just a teaspoon this time, right?
Oh yeah. For sure.
[20 minutes later]
How you feeling?
[grumble, grumble, grunt] It works a lot better if you take a tablespoon.
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by Lela Davidson on January 26, 2010
in Marriage
That’s pretty funny… and I completele agree: men are pretty pathetic when they are sick or have any sort of ailment. It’s so sad. They really need to learn some better coping skills.
Actually, Melissa, I think their coping skills are pretty good. They’ve got us waiting on them. It’s my coping skills that could use pharmaceutical assistance.
Oh, my word. I had a cold two weeks ago. Knocked me for a loop. But I kept on plugging along, doing my house, teaching my 35 students, writing my stuff. My husband caught the cold the next week, and took two days off from work and whined and carried on and sniffled so dramatically I finally said, “I’m sorry. It looks like you caught my cold.”
And, I kid you not, he said, “You had a cold??”
He didn’t need the cough medicine. I just punched his lights out.
I just read this to my husband and he started laughing… his response: “it’s so true… it works a lot better if you just sip on it.”