Win Friends and blah blah blah... Afternoon [8/8]

[dr-snark.livejournal.com]

Dr. Cox is looking rather smug this morning as all the students come and take their seats.

"All right newbies, every once in a while a situation comes along where you need to handle it with kid gloves. So today's class is all about Let's take for an example an old patient of mine. Let's call him.... Bob. Bob hasn't been listening to his regular doctor about his heart and arteries and has somehow smuggled in a dozen White Castle sliders into his hospital room after having a quadruple bypass surgery. Your options are thus:"

Be *shudder* Nice
"Gee Mr. Geldoff I know those hamburgers are awfully tasty but perhaps we should go over your diet and see what we can do to make you healthy again. Okay Buddy?"

Be Direct
"Hey Bob? No offense but this eating habit of yours is going to send you to an early grave. You've ignored the warning signs even after having surgery and if you continue this practice it will have dire consequences"

Be Me
*sharp piercing whistle* "All right Bobbo, I'm only going to tell you this one more time so you better start using those flaps on the side of your head or so help me I'll rip them off and give them to my intern who could so use them. Did you really thing having White Castle after surgery was the brightest idea ever? Why didn't you just open a can of lard and start shoveling it into your face because it's having the same effect. You know the whole quadruple bypass isn't just a warning sign tubby, it's a freakin' billboard teetering over and about to crush you like an ant. So if it were me? I'd either start eating something green and stop trying to eat a heifer in one sitting. 'kay?"

Your assignment is to approach three different students using one of the methods above each for one or more of the following delicate situations:

1. Your significant other is a fish
2. Your significant other has a thing for bellboys
3. You have a booger hanging on the end of your nose
4. You have something in your teeth
5. That thing you had for lunch was tainted by E Coli
6. You have cancer
7. You have toilet paper stuck to the end of your shoe
8. You're bald. Everyone knows you are wearing a rug
9. You're a little pudgy.
10. Your fly is down and your fashionable underwear is showing


[OOC: Wait for the OCD is up!]

Comments

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Hey Aeryn." Oh, John just can't resist.

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

Aeryn shakes her head. "Seriously?"

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" He grins and says, "What'd you eat last night?"

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

Still shaking her head, she says, "Some sandwich thing, I don't know."

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Did you eat more than one?"

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

Now Aeryn's frowning. "No..."

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Really?" He grins and looks down at her stomach. "Hi cute belly!"

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

She stares at him. "Are you serious?"

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"What?!" John really hopes she knows this is a joke. "It's cute. It's just bigger. I like it."

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

Still staring.

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"It's all cute and squishy and cuddly," John says.

Shut up, John.

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"Shut up, John," she tells him, back to shaking her head.

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"It's attractive," John says, not shutting up. "It's jiggly. I like things that jiggle."

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"If you ever want to see me naked again, you might want to stop now," she tells him quietly.

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"But, Aeryn, I like it!"

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"No," she says, shaking her head. "Shh."

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"It's just a little pouch."

Oh my god, John, shut up.

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"I am going to have to hurt you soon."

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"...Aeryn!" He flails a bit. "But I like it!"

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"No. Stop. Silent time now."

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"It'sreallycuteandcuddly," he says in one breath.

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

She shoos him away.

Greg had more self-preservation.

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Are you shoo'ing me?" He gapes at her.

Re: Assignment:

[can_be_more]

"Yes," she says.

Re: Assignment:

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"What if I refuse to go?"