I'm a nurse, not a manicurist!
The other day I stopped off at the drugstore after work to pick up cold medicine. When I got to the checkout, the clerk looked at my scrubs and asked, “Are you a doctor?” "No", I replied, "I’m a nurse." Apparently that was good enough, because he proceeded to hold up a finger to show me his black and purple nail and ask, “Do you think it will fall off?”
Dude. I’m an ICU nurse. I can recover people after open heart surgery, treat lethal arrhythmias, run complex life support equipment. But is your fingernail is going to fall off after you smashed it? I have no freakin’ idea.
What I told him: “Yeah, I think it will.”
1 the peanut gallery:
All I know is that if it's green it's a cold, if it's yellow it's a sinus problem and if it's clear it's your allergies.
You could have told him that it wouldn't if he painted it bright pink.
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