Originally Posted by Deb Arkle:
“Agreed, Penny - the giveaway is that people ring in to work to say they are off with flu....if that were true they'd be unable to get to a phone! (That is easier now though, with the advent of mobiles)”
Spot on. A friend who is a GP once told me that it drives her bonkers when patients stroll into her surgery claiming they have the "flu" - or ask for call outs, and when she arrives she finds them sitting on the sofa eating biscuits!!
The test is to tell someone with flu that there's twenty £50 notes lying on the floor. If they can get out of bed to pick them up, then they haven't got flu!!