All right. I know that sneezing in someone’s face is not considered cool. I know that licking someone else’s spoon before handing it to them is also not considered cool. I also know that people are way too freaked out about the flu. Yes, people die. But people die all the time. Sometimes they even die after getting hit by an ice cream truck…yet I will still flag down the ice cream man on hot summer evenings. I like to live on the edge.
Since I seem to enjoy drama, I am currently surrounded by people in the midst of a Grade-A-Flu-Freakout. Emails are being sent about the proper way to cover your mouth when coughing (hint: don’t cough or sneeze directly into someone’s face) and signs are going up reminding us to wash our hands after using the bathroom. As someone pointed out (please, remind me who you are, it was brilliant!): Just because I pee on my hands doesn’t mean I have swine flu. Ah, logic in the face of freak-out.
Today, there was much left-over pizza that I put out in the kitchen so everyone could inhale some. This, due to swine flu freak out, was immediately a dramatically huge no-no. So. I moved the pizza out into the lobby, where the swine flu virus is apparently impotent. So, it should follow that on the list of ways of avoiding the flu, we should include a little footnote about how our lobby is a wonderful virus-killing space. Bah, logic.
An Erinku (not a type of flu):
motorcycle
revving up
outside my window
scares the squirrels….good.
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