# The Blerrgghh Line: Not sick enough to stay home **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299 "2018-03-27T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/1 "2018-03-27T21:25:31Z")
I hate being on the sick boundary line. I’m not sick enough to justify staying home, but feel low-level cruddy at work. It’s a Vague Plague that a lot of people have at work: sniffles, cough, sinus guck, and low fever. I’m overseeing an urgent project at work that would be a pain to re-schedule, so it’s not worth missing work for just “kinda sick.” If I were to get “really sick” I could stay home without guilt. Blerrggghhh. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/2 "2018-03-27T22:23:50Z")
I kind of know how you feel. I’ve been home sick or working from home since last Wednesday, but felt I had to go in today even though, while I am better, I’m still coughing occasionally and feeling a bit blah. After a week, people start to wonder why you aren’t better yet and need to see you not looking so great to believe you were really sick. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/3 "2018-03-27T22:29:19Z")
I am feeling alittle hayfeverish. I think the spring disease has come a bit early even for So.Arkansas. I don’t work but I still can’t do all I need to do, mainly because I use any excuse I can to do absolutely nothin’. I respect people who have actual lives and have to work ill. I don’t know how you do it. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/4 "2018-03-28T15:14:48Z")
Just had to point out that the thread below this one is titled “I’ve crossed a threshold” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/5 "2018-03-28T19:14:05Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Just had to point out that the thread below this one is titled “I’ve crossed a threshold” 😃 Funny! I crossed the sick boundary - left work early today, barfed on someone’s car in parking lot walking to my car to leave. Sorry, person with blue Honda sedan. So much for dignity, not that I had much left. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/6 "2018-03-28T19:22:33Z")
I always assume that no one else wants to catch whatever I have and I certainly don’t want to catch what they have either. I stay home unless it’s imperative that I go into the office. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/7 "2018-03-29T19:48:21Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I always assume that no one else wants to catch whatever I have and I certainly don’t want to catch what they have either. I stay home unless it’s imperative that I go into the office. Me too, this is a rare time that something was actually critical. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-blerrgghh-line-not-sick-enough-to-stay-home/811299/8 "2018-03-30T00:19:52Z")
I once had walking pneumonia when my wife was on a trip out of the country. She came home and immediately phoned my boss and said I wouldn’t be in as usual at 5 am tomorrow. Boss said “Good. I don’t know why he kept coming in every day”. But then, I have to allow that he might have said that if I had been perfectly healthy, too.