An interesting bit of Nurse Angry trivia: the angry part of Nurse Angry actually has nothing to do with the health care system, her employer, nasty co-workers or grouchy, unthankful patients. Nurse Angry became Nurse Angry when she did not sleep for a year and a half.
Last night a new phrase was coined at Nurse Angry ‘s house: As quiet as a …..(put name of teenager here).
One of the household’s teenagers went to a nearby friend’s house where there most probably is a BIGGER screen for playing games on. Teenager promised when leaving to be back before midnight and to be as quiet as a …… when coming back, as The Old People’s bedroom door is next to the outside door.
Imagine partner’s surprise when the doorbell rings.
Nurse Angry does not know if Teenager came home on time. The only important thing is that Nurse Angry did NOT wake up! A miracle! Made possible only by the magical power of silicone. Thank you, Mack, wherever you are for making those wonderful, “pillow-soft” earplugs. They have literally saved lives– of the people Nurse Angry would have strangled had she been been woken. Nurse Angry should have invested in silicone because there would at least be a possibility of some return on her formidable investments in these rather costly, highly necessary quality items.
Which leads Nurse Angry to today’s handy tip for teens: Remember kids, if you’re going to sneak in quietly you might want to remember to take your keys with you.
sleeplessinstockholm 
Thanks to your handy tip, I reminded one of my teenagers to take his keys with him last night. He did. I sort of slept when he returned, but an hour later I was wide awake KNOWING he hadn’t locked the door again when he came back. So I got up and did it for him. Didn’t get any more sleep. I don’t know what the handy tip should be in this case. There is NOTHING he might not forget. Does silicone always help?
Holy moly Helena, you’re WAY ahead of the game! Nurse Angry didn’t even think of the forgetting to lock the door thing. She won’t tell abovementioned partner about that one, he may never sleep again. So, so true that there is nothing they might not forget. Nurse Angry doesn’t know what the tip would be in this case either, but she will think about it. She is however pretty sure the solution will involve silicone. Watch this page.
Until then, fretting (Swedish) parents may want to try to get ahold of an old article by Hanna Hellkvist in DN which includes the most wonderful sentence Nurse Angry has seen in years: Ingen bor i tonårskroppen.
Thank you, Nurse Angry, that is reassuring. I’ll stay tuned for silicone solution.
“Hanna äger!” (Quoting my younger teenager, who probably didn’t read this sentence … yet.)