"Are any of you bleeding? Are you all still conscious? Yes? Then work it out amongst yourselves." If she were feeling more generous, she'd add, "You need to learn how to work out differences with people. Now's the time to practice. Go."
I'm quite fond of this approach myself, in class.
Are any of you bleeding?
The answer to that for us was "yes" an awful lot. We were scratchers and biters. Evil twin was the hair puller, though.
I ask if anyone is bleeding from the eye.
My younger sister and I fought a lot, but she's smallish and fine-boned and has these ENORMOUS dark brown eyes. She'd start a fight and then go to our mother and look pitiful. (the envious tag is never going to close)
More adventures in stupid work e-mails:
The meeting will begin prominently at 8am to 5pm
"Are any of you bleeding? Are you all still conscious? Yes?
I usually go with "Is anything on fire? Is anybody's arm lying on the floor? Then deal with it yourselves."
My younger sister and I fought a lot, but she's smallish and fine-boned and has these ENORMOUS dark brown eyes. She'd start a fight and then go to our mother and look pitiful.
That was our stalemate--same big, blue peepers on both of us.
The meeting will begin prominently at 8am to 5pm
What bugs even more is that if they had even used the right word, it still doesn't make sense. Is arriving any time between 8am and 5pm considered prompt?
My sister used to hit me all the time when i was a kid, but as I didn't hit back she always got in trouble and I never did. I hit eleven, got taller than her and then hit back one day. She never hit me, after that. Puberty RULES.
What bugs even more is that if they had even used the right word, it still doesn't make sense. Is arriving any time between 8am and 5pm considered prompt?
He just sent an e-mail to correct himself on the word, but he didn't make any more sense of that logistical inconsistency.
I responded to laugh and say that I made fun of him in my head. I neglected to mention that I made fun of him to my Internet friends as well.