Dammit Jim i'm NOT a doctor!

[jjllbb]

Two days ago I saw a woman waving to me wildly from down one of the aisles.

She seemed pretty urgent so i rushed over.

When I got closer i saw she had a young boy with her who looked like he didn't feel well.

She started telling me the boy felt sick.

The kid did look uncomfortable but it clearly wasn't an emergency situation and he just said "my stomach hurts".

I was just afraid that he was going to puke all over the floor (making it the 3rd time in 4 days i'd have had to clean puke up).But the woman was freaking out.

Then she decided to literally lay him across the FLOOR, in the middle of the store and look up at me like she wanted me to pull a medical degree out of my ass.

People were walking around/over them. I asked her if she needed an ambulance(even though it didn't seem like the kid was even that sick) but she declined.

But then she still told me that i needed to "do something".

Like WHAT?(is what i was thinking to myself). It's not like i had a doctor's office in the back.

...So i got him a cup of water. And...

Ta-Da! Problem solved.

The kid jumped up and they bought their stuff and went home.

The lady was really grateful but sheesh! Talk about overreacting.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I don't even wanna know what she's going to be like when he starts driving or dating.

[Lyra]

Ummm...I'm pretty sure he won't be allowed out of her sight till he's 30. Possibly longer.

Please, please, please let me be able to 'let go' when it's time.

[tollbaby]

In her defense.... she may be emetophobic LOL I am (in a big way) and I freak out whenever my kids are sick... but the only person I pull into my irrational orbit is my ex-husband LOL

[Sheldonrs]

Did you bill her for the treatment?

[r2cagle]

Please send me a gallon of your magic water. I agree to pay all shipping and handling costs.

[MaseMan]

Great coping skills there. She freaks out, and expects a complete stranger to "cure" her kid? What a whackjob.

[NateTheChops]

Please send me a gallon of your magic water. I agree to pay all shipping and handling costs.

Forget that. I'm going to send you a copy of my checkbook. Write down any amount and deposit them into your bank account and then wire me the difference in exchange for all of your magic water.

[zzapp the witch]

Where's sheldonrs when I need him to finish off a magic water joke for me?

[dalesys]

Where's sheldonrs when I need him to finish off a magic water joke for me?

He'll pop up when it's time for the shower!

[infinitemonkies]

You should've taken out his appendix, just to be safe.

[Sheldonrs]

He'll pop up when it's time for the shower!

I often pop up in the shower. ;-)

Where's sheldonrs when I need him to finish off a magic water joke for me?

I guess you'll just have to finish yourself off. ;-)

[KhirasHY]

I don't even wanna know what she's going to be like when he starts driving or dating.

My sadistic mind immediately jumped to "Junior's first STD."

Mother would think the world was coming to an end

[PepperElf]

But then she still told me that i needed to "do something".

exploratory surgery anyone?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Yeah, unless you want the next words to pass from my lips to be "He's dead, Jim," I'm not going to dispense medical advice and treatment like that. That's what the in-store pharmacy is for.

"But what if the person's name isn't Jim," you may ask? Then he/she will just have to change it.