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Today's Stupid Person of the Day.
[09:31] friend: how do people get so stupid?
[09:31] telo: yo
[09:31] telo: talent.
[09:32] friend: i guess
[09:32] friend: cow-orker is feeling like shit on Friday. I tell him to go home, because I don't want whatever he's got. Give him the number for my GP. He doesn't go home.
[09:33] friend: Ask him today if he got an appt. Nope - he's got a friend who has - get this - extra antibiotics, so he's taking them.
[09:33] telo: ARG
[09:33] friend: I ask him, "Do I need to lecture you on how colossally stupid an idea that is?"
[09:33] friend: I fucking hate people.
[09:33] telo: My cousin had to be on IV antibiotics for SIX WEEKS thanks to a sresistant staph infection developed trhough PEOPLE LIKE HIM.
[09:34] telo: And the poeple who say "I'm feeling better so I stopped taking them."
[09:34] friend: See this friend is going in for surgery tomorrow, so they gave her some other ABs to take. So he's taking the ABs she was recently on for her sinus infection.
[09:35] friend: And he's got an eight day supply.
[09:35] telo: Calls for an emoticon: >.<
[09:35] friend: And he swears that with his immune system, he'll be fine in eight days.
[09:35] friend: Me: "You'll /feel/ fine."
[09:35] friend: heh - good one
[09:35] friend: looks like Cartman's face on South Park when he says "GOD DAMMIT!"
[09:35] telo: hee.
[09:36] friend: He wasn't budging, so I told him this was not a conversaiton I needed to have this early on a Monday.

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Do you know what the worst part is? The worst part is that Stupid Guy probably *is* going to feel fine. Some unsuspecting non-antiobiotic-abusing person he passes the bug onto is the one who's going to take the hit.

Exactly. And then I'm sure he'll get all incensed that doctors aren't "doing something about" antibiotic-resistant strains of bugs.

yikes

Argh! Idiot alert! People like that piss me off, mostly because I end up being the poor sucker who catches whatever they've mutated -_-

I don't even bother going to the doctors about most of my illnesses these days because they don't like giving out antibiotics unless you really look like you might die otherwise. It sounds like the coworker has just got a really bad cold, in which case you do like I did today and just phone in saying you can barely get out of bed and you wont be in to work until you feel better, not potentially start a new super bug.

Yup. And they have no clue if it's bacteria or a virus or something else causing the problem, so there's a very good chance the antibiotics aren't doing a thing *for* them anyway. They're just magic pills that make you feel better.

Like people who don't grasp the theory behind various computer things. I ahd a coworker who never grasped that these error messages tha tpop up might TELL YOU SOMETHING. And she got frustrated when I couldn't fix her box right away, because her entire concept of how computers worked was that you typed magic words in and hit a button and then it magically worked. But what really ticked me off is that she *refused* to learn anything more. "Oh I don't ahve time to do that."[*] But you ahve time to sit arounds on your ass complaining that you can't work because the computer's broken, and I can't get to it to fix yet?

[*] Her standard answer to everything. SHe ahd a tooth crumble and the doctor warned her very sternly to brush her teeth before she went to bed to preven it happeneiing to any mroe teeth, and she actually said "Who has time to do that?" OK, sure, if that whole thrity seconds you save is worth more to yu than the toothache pain and sitting in the dentist's chair for several hours getting what's left of your tooth capped...

Stupid people make Jin sad.