100 words: stethoscope

Every house has a doctor, in children’s games. When characters were picked, mom and dad were always picked last. Baby was fought over sometimes, but the most sought-after role was that of doctor. The doctor has a little bag of instruments that he gets to carry around. In it, among bandages and thermometers, eye-patches and cough drops, was the much-respected plastic stethoscope. When the doctor pulled the stethoscope out of his bag, baby laid quietly on the table to be examined. The doctor would then listen to baby’s bones, thinking he could hear the creaks in them. He would place the end of the stethoscope on baby’s head and listen intently, and announce that baby had a sore throat, and prescribe two cough drops for mom and dad to give to baby when they got home.