Make up an excuse

“Uh, hi.... I’m Connor, and I’m just helping Nurse Mileu for a bit. Are you her assistant?”

“Yes. I’m Fergus,” he says, warily. “She said you were helping, but I didn’t think you would be getting into the medicine cabinets. She doesn’t even let me do that.”

“Oh, well, the cabinets were open, and I was sorting through the papers like the nurse asked me to, and I couldn’t read some of the handwriting and just wanted to confirm a few things.”

Fergus walks over to where in we’re working and looks around. “Yeah,” he says, “some of those forms are near indecipherable. Still, you don’t want to mess around with the medicines. There are some potent things in there, and if you don’t know what you are doing, you can really cause problems. I study this stuff, and some of it is still a mystery to me.”

Fergus continues to look at your work area. He sees the open database on the computer and looks at the open Physician’s Desk Reference on the desk. He looks up at you suddenly with a look of understanding and says, “Oh, I see what you are doing!”

You try to think fast. Should you play dumb, come up with another excuse, or just come clean and admit what you were doing?