Some people seem to be put in this world simply to test the patience of the rest of us.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

There's been one camped outside my office now for about 2 hours. Keeping himself amused by flipping around and scrunching a water bottle. I HATE that sound. I'm about ready to tell him if he has to sit there to please find something a little quieter and less phallic to play with.

(Sorry, just venting. I've about had my fill of students by Friday.)

[Locut0s]

1. A water bottle is phallic?...

I suppose technically I can see that but don't think that would ever occur to me. But I agree the sound would drive me crazy too.

[MindMover]

2. This is called stemming, this person needs some mental health attention ...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. I've been told that a lot over the years. but what about the student?

[MindMover]

4. I am saying that the student needs some help ... he/she is stemming and overstimulated ...

that person needs either to be told to take deep breaths or physically be active ...

[Myrina]

5. ... or if it's a high school/college student, to lay off the Red Bull & 5 hour Energy Drink ....

n/t

[hunter]

6. I'm too old and too well medicated for that, but I've done worse.

Water bottles were before my time. My opinion is that water bottles are crazy.

is wrong with our society that giant corporations like Nestle or Coca-Cola can sell water in plastic bottles?

[pinboy3niner]

8. We had watter bottles in the old days

We called them 'canteens.'

[Aristus]

7. Yeah, and they're usually ahead of me, driving 30mph on the freeway.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Slow down, Aristus...

[hunter]

10. If you had me as a student in college...

... trust me, I did worse then "scrunching a water bottle."

I was "asked" to take mental health breaks from school... twice.

Getting back into school the third time was a tough sell, but meds improved, a few people saw my potential, and I did graduate.

Next thing you know I'm saving the world from Daleks whenever The Good Doctor is otherwise occupied.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Glad it worked out for you, Hunter. Our college actually is very sincerely gung ho on helping the...

...the various flavors of at-risk students. I have no reason to assume my pal in the hallway this morning had any special issues. If I did then as usual I would have made some phone calls.

[hunter]

13. One of my best Save-Your-Life moments...

... an English professor took me by the hand and walked me to the student health center.

I was really, really messed up on the oral steroids I'd been prescribed for my asthma.

My mind isn't that stable to begin with and oral steroids always made it worse.

Prednisone is my drug of choice. Better than anything. For a few days it makes me feel like a normal person.

At first they thought I was the usual LSD-or-Mushrooms-hallucinogen dude. Sleep it off.

But then a good doctor figured it out a few hours later. I love her forever. I wish I had her name.

My one-and-only mushroom trip was nothing like that. That time the campus police simply took me home and I never did it again. I also learned to avoid alone-with-girlfriend pressure.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. I think you are wrong there GNC . . .

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MOST people in the World test the patience of the rest of us.

Especially if they are in Government jobs.

'nuff said.

CC