You Know That You're An Athletic Trainer When.....?
March 11, 2009 By AJ Stadelmeyer of Paul G Blazer High School
In honor of National Athletic Training Month:
You Know That You're An Athletic Trainer When...... 1. Your entire wardrobe has the school logo on it. 2. You hear the word "water" and cringe. 3. Per Deim meal money is the only money that you have to pay bills with. 4. Several pairs of scissors, tape cutters, gloves, and rolls of tape have mysteriously followed you home. 5. You argue over who gets to fill the water bottles. 6. So many water coolers have spilled in your car that when it gets cold outside, the inside of your car windows and your car seats freeze with ice from the moisture inside of your car. 7. The highlight of your day is making heel and lace pads. 8. You have permanent tan lines from 3-a-day practices. 9. You have pre-game friends and post-game friends. 10. You have spent more time driving the golf cart than your own car. 11. You have holes poked in your car upholstery from the scissors in your back pocket. 12. There are enough pizza boxes left in your motel room after an away trip to start your own pizza restaurant. 13. You use QDA for hairspray. 14. You use skin lube as lip balm. 15. You use pre-wrap as Kleenex. 16. You have been detained in an airport when trying to board an airplane with bandage scissors in your pocket. 17. You actually know the alternative use for everything in your athletic training room. 18. You failed the weight watchers program 3 times. 19. You use at least one medical term in every sentence. 20. Everyone that you are around during the season is off limits for dating. 21. You use pre-wrap for hair-ties. 22. Your idea of going to the pharmacy is "can I borrow your cabinet keys?" 23. Your idea of a fine novel is "Hoppenfeld's Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities". 24. You use folded over tape to get lint off of your suits and jackets. 25. Your idea of fine dining is a corn dog, popcorn, a candy bar and a soda pop. 26. All of your good luggage consists of duffle bags, medical kits and fanny packs. 27. You use Cramergesic and Icy Hot as perfume and cologne. 28. You have actually boiled water in a metal pan for coffee or tea with your ultrasiund machine. 29. On your rare nights off, you spend time going to other schools games. 30. When you finally come home at the end of the day your spouse or parents say "who are you?", or didn't you used to live here?", or they call 911 because they think that you are an intruder. 31. You put ice on everything, including heartburn, PMS, hemorrhoids, angina, and athletes foot. 32. You love your job because of the sideline passes and court side seats. 33. You call it a "Hip Pack", not a "Fanny Pack". 34. You believe that sports drinks count as a friut in your diet. 35. You also love your job because you get to run with scissors. 36. The only reason that you watch sports on TV is to watch for injuries and to watch the athletic trainers, and you get angry when they cut to an advertisement when the athletic trainers go onto the field or court for a hurt player. 37. You tend to speak loudly most of the time and you always repeat your self 3 times because no one listens to you at work the first time you say anything. 38. You actually debate with your friends whicch sport is more fun to cover as an athletic trainer. 39. When you walk into an athletic training room, you are automatically hungry. 40. You use athletic training room disinfectatnt at home because "you love the smell of Isoquin in the morning". 41. All the adults that you are friends with can be addressed as "coach" or "Doc". 42. You make purchase decisions for new equipment in your athletic training room by watching what the "pro" athletic trainers use during TV sports broadcasts. 43. You have used the anatomy lab skeleton to scare someone on Halloween. |