I’d wanted to make a little note of this so here goes.
I sit near this guy at work who’s at the same level as my boss, and we mostly get along okay. But whenever Noah’s been sick and I’ve had to take sick time, he’s mentioned that he’s never been sick – in 15 years. (He hasn’t worked at my company that long, and he’s younger than I am.)
I have generally interpreted this as “so you should get your butt in” and it has made me a bit grumpy. And paranoid, because he’s my boss’s peer.
Anyways, on Friday I was saying that since we had been at a large birthday party for preschoolers in an indoor playground with a ball pit last weekend, this weekend Noah or I are liable to get something. (By the way, we’re waiting to see but one of Noah’s eyes looked a bit like pinkeye might be the golden catch! Grr!)
And he said that he’d himself vomited in the Ikea ball pit when he was four (err… EW) and that being sick so much as a kid was what’s made him so healthy.
So – after a bit of discussion – it looks like he was trying to show me the payoff all that time.
Yeesh.
