Where have all the manners gone? Really, I want to know!
All across the United States of Menthol people are sharing their cold and flu cooties, hacking up lungs and just being generally miserable and gross, poor babies!
I am just going to put it out there, restate the obvious for the rest of us who have made it through cold and flu season with successful if not extreme self medication methods and hypochondriac tendencies...COVER YOUR MOUTH AND WASH YOUR HANDS...FREQUENTLY...please and thank you!
What prompted this you ask? Picture it...
Taking a break, popped a bag of popcorn, had it at my desk, poured out a bowl, had it sitting next to the bag. Two seconds later, someone walks by who just finished coughing into their hand (courtesy of peripheral vision) and proceeds to use that same nasty ass hand to take some popcorn out of my bowl!!!
Did I mention I am two seconds off being a total and complete hypochondriac...OMG...i might not make it through this one without dry heaving!
But wait it gets better...after narrowly averting reflux disaster, my boss who might as well be the poster child for nasty ass cold and flu season, comes out to ask me a question and you can guess what happened next...coughed up a lung, did not cover their mouth and was basically over the same bowl of popcorn!!
Bonus round, gets paged over the loud speaker, picks up my phone to dial reception...THAT IS IT!!! Last straw, I'm done, hugging myself and rocking in the corner, trying to calm down!
Its been hours, have regained my composure, popcorn dumped, buying stock in Lysol and Purell.
People, I'm sorry your achy and sick, and I wish we could all stay home until we feel better, but if you cant, use the etiquette we learned in preschool, cover your mouth and wash your hands...it will all get better soon!
And we're off...
