The most commonly heard expression in the nurse's office of my elementary school. The cure for EVERY
AILMENT KNOWN TO MAN was a
sucking candy. This was probably due to the fact that 95% of the time someone went to the nurse's office, they weren't actually
sick. So, the
nurse would just give out sucking candies by the
truckload to make everyone feel better. But even when someone really was sick, she still gave the damn things out.
When I had
lice in
kindergarten, I got a sucking candy.
When my
friend fainted in the middle of class in
fifth grade, he got propped up on a chair in the nurse's office and got a sucking candy when he woke up.
When another friend got sat on by some
bullies and broke his
collarbone, he got a sucking candy while he was waiting for his
mother to show up and drive him to the
hospital.
I happened to be in the
nurse's office one day when a
teacher carried a kid in who was having a really bad
asthma attack. The nurse leaped into action, actually giving the kid proper medical attention.
EMTs rushed over to the school to drove him to the hospital, and as they're carting the kid out of the office, the nurse runs out into the hallway:
"Wait! WAIT UP!
I forgot to give him a sucking candy!"
Similar to the "Just take a
salt tablet!" sentiment on one episode of
King of the Hill.