Let’s see. Yup! I’ve got it. Yellow, right? Okay. Lefty, here’s your Valium, better take it to control your knee-jerk syndrome, and I won’t have to humiliate you for being stupid again. Here’s a glass of water, now swallow that pill. Good boy.

Let’s pretend for a minute that you are a business owner (maybe some of you actually are) and your business is to provide a service to the mentally retarded. Some of society’s most vulnerable people who are depending on you, and truly do need your help.

A few of your employee’s call in sick, and leave those folks out on the street corner, not knowing what to do. That’s bad, but, your employee’s are sick, so you scramble like heck to get the clients taken care of and avert the crisis. You get things under control, and it’s smoother sailing for the rest of the day. Everything is covered.

Later that day, you decide you’re going to take the afternoon off and play a round of golf. You can do that because you’re the boss and it’s your company.

You get to the golf course and check in at the clubhouse when you notice a group of loud, boisterous guys whooping it up at the bar, having a good time and bragging that they all broke par.

Trouble is, they are the very same guys that are employed by you and called in sick earlier in the day and created a crisis at your place of employment. What would you do?

Three union workers who called out sick to attend a labor rally at the New Jersey Statehouse last week have been suspended.

The move comes a day after Gov. Christie told NBC New York in an interview that “people who call in sick better be sick.” Christie issued his warning ahead of another labor rally that drew thousands on Thursday.

Monmouth County officials said the three employees suspended without pay Thursday work for the county’s Senior Citizen Area Transportation service and are members of CWA Local 1038.

The county said the workers were among 14 in the department who called out sick; officials alleged that 174 developmentally disabled adults who depend on the county’s services ended up “waiting for buses that never came.”

“These employees are being suspended without pay based on the fact that we have evidence to prove that they were not home sick as they had claimed,” said Lillian Burry, a county official.

A suspension is very generous. I would have fired them.