Would you ever intentionally make someone sick?
In the 3rd grade, a kid came up to me, coughed in my face, and announced, “I just gave you the mumps!” And he was correct.
Years ago, I had a peer at work who we all were sure came into work sick just to get his fellow managers sick. When he was sick, you could be sure that he would have something that day that he had to talk about with you in your office, with the door closed. It was a joke among the fellow managers.
Would you ever engage in this kind of “biowar”?
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No. That’s horrible that someone would do that. I think the only other time I heard of something like that was years ago when kids got chicken pox – it was thought since you were going to get them anyway – throw all the kids in a room with the one who had ‘em. Seems pretty bad to me. Especially since they came out with the vaccine and some of those kids may never have gotten them at all.
My best friend nearly did. She just about gave me mono a week ago. I had to get my blood tested and everything. We played beer pong on the same team and she drank out of every cup before the game started. Gosh, I just love her. (I did give her the flu once though, so I guess it was payback.)
Not me, but my mother would and tried as hard as she could to get me sick!
My sister got chicken pox on her 16th birthday – great timing, huh? My mother decided that she wanted me to get them, too. She knew that as you get older, they can get worse. Even the doctor told her not to hide me from her. (psycho! Seriously – he was a good doc, but really, who does that??) A week I was forced to spend more time with my sister than either of us wanted to spend together. No pox for me!
Ironically, on my 16th birthday, two years later, I got the chicken pox.
We tell my mother that she could lead a bioterrorism unit – not with a high success rate, though.
I have never done it on purpose, but once I got someone sick unintentionally who quite deserved it.
I’d had a date with this kid the week before and he didn’t call me, text me, IM me, anything, so I figured he didn’t want to go out with me again. Well, that Friday, he asked me out again and I was ecstatic because I had really liked him. I was sick the whole day before and I thought I wasn’t going to be able to see him, but I felt better when I woke up that morning. so I went on the date. As it turns out, the kid didn’t really want to see me again, it had just been so long since he made out with anyone so he asked me out to make out with me. Well, as you can imagine, I was pretty damn pissed off that he had used me like that. However, he got sick the next day and missed a bunch of work because he was puking for two days straight.
So, I didn’t do it intentionally, but I’m certainly glad it happened and he certainly deserved it.
Golden rule, my friends. I sure as hell don’t want to be unwillingly infected, why on Earth would I ever do it to someone else?
Such behavior is ridiculous and immature. I choose to be a mature person, thus I don’t engage in such.
I am not particularly proud of this but I once had a horrible “hands-on” (ie. lecherous) supervisor who was a diabetic. About once a month he would do a ride along with me. He refused to believe that ketchup has any sugar in it so I always made sure to stop for lunch somewhere that served hamburgers. He would put huge amounts of ketchup on his food (and always ate lots of fries). Shortly after lunch he would begin to feel bad as his blood sugar went up so I would have to take him back to the office. I could then complete my inspections on my own without having to guard against his attempts to feel me up. While high blood sugar is not a good thing, it isn’t lethal and he should have known better.
I have never willingly infected anyone with an illness. But my niece (age 16), who has an odd approach to making friends, chose to deliberately drink out of my daughter’s cup or glass every time she set it down, and then afterward cheerfully and vindictively announced that she had recently been diagnosed with mono. Because my daughter has an incomplete immune system she immediately went into a panic. Fortunately, although my niece really did have mono, my daughter did not come down with it. She has since been extremely cautious around her cousin.
As dynamicduo says, “Such behavior is ridiculous and immature.” It can also be dangerous to the person so infected.
No, because I try not to be an asshole.
@Darwin – LOL! I knew you had a darker side! ;)
@cak – Little do you know. :-)
I can’t think of any good reason to purposefully make someone sick. That definitely comes under the heading of cruel, thoughtless, senseless, rude, and idiotic.
Certainly not. The idea is vile.
My mother did send me to try to get the German measles from my friend when we were both in third grade. She said get it now so you can’t get it later when you’re pregnant (an idea I could not comprehend). I ate half of my friend’s cookie, drank from her milk glass, and everything. We both thought it was fun to be breaking all the rules about cooties. But I never got German measles at all, then or later.
No, I wouldn’t do that. Mean people suck!
No way. I do remember the whole ‘expose the kids to chicken pox early’ thing, though. Thank goodness my kids have the vaccine. I had chicken pox when I was young, and got shingles in my 30s. Man, that sucked!
NO!
Except for my brother, I would happily.
I did. When I was working in the ER, someone came in with an overdose. We had to induce vomiting as part of the treatment.
I made both him AND me sick!
When I was little I sold my flu’.
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Sure. Leastways I can think of cases where it’d be a good idea.
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