Friday, January 16, 2009

Multiple choice questions

1. Which of the following possibly does not qualify for an insurance-covered flu shot, depending on the insurance company?

a) Pregnant women
b) Individuals under the age of 18
c) Individuals over the age of 50
d) Mothers in their thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

2. Which of the following in my house has/have had a flu shot?

a) All individuals under the age of 18
b) The 50-year-old individual
c) The cat
d) The mother in her thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

3. Who in my house has been sick since the end of December?

a) The cat
b) The 14-year-old
c) The fish
d) Everyone else

4. What is the average number of times each sick person has gotten sick WITHOUT more than a single day of feeling better in between?

a) 2
b) 1.5
c) 1.6
d) 3

5. Who, while still on antibiotics for the first illness, has now come down with what is quite possibly the flu?

a) The father
b) One of the kids
c) The cat
d) The mother in her thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

6. Who has determined that priority one is NOT getting the mother better (that is priority TWO), but is rather to NOT get HIM sick?

I'm not even going to give you choices for this one; just take a wild guess.

5 comments:

Pickles and Dimes said...

Hmmm...that last one's a toughie. :)

Alice said...

oh dear..... men really are bad at this, aren't they :-P

Anonymous said...

He sounds very sympathetic. Maybe you should go lick his coffee cup in the morning.

Fiona Picklebottom said...

To be fair, he is already on antibiotics himself for a sinus infection and has already missed a couple days of work from being sick before he got treated, and it makes sense that one parent should be well. If we were BOTH sick, it would be worse for me, since at least he's doing the whole bedtime routine (except baths) in the evenings. But still... a little more sensitivity to my predicament would be nice.

Anonymous said...

Somehow, over the years, I have developed a fair deree of immunity to my kids assorted illnesses. I never get the flu shot. I'm told it involves a needle.