I’m not a germaphobe, I just don’t appreciate you coughing in my face. Every time you cough in my general direction, I think of all the disgusting viral particles you’re so generously spreading around and need to avert the overwhelming urge to whip out my hand sanitizer & surgical mask and run to the opposite side of the room. Could you try and have some manners? I mean I like you, when you aren’t sick and coughing in my face all day. I try not to offend you by saying “Hey SARS, could you aim your cough in the other direction, maybe into the corner where no one sits?” By the time lunch hour rolls around, I haven’t seen you wash your hands before touching everything in the lunch room or after wiping your nose with your hand.
On top of it all, when I get sick a few days later, you have the nerve to say, “Well you didn’t get it from me, my doctor says I’m not contagious, I only have a chest infection.” Dude, in order for your chest to become infected in the first place, there has to be some sort of foreign substance, be it viral or bacterial infecting it and when you’re so impolitely coughing into your hand and touching my notes and textbooks without sanitizing, you’re definitely “contagious”. —Sick of this “snot bubble” sitting near me
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCy8K968Alo
you are doing well with the interweb this afternoon admiral…screee
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“i prepared the salad while i bathed”
Thank You Painey – I seem to have finally wrapped my cementen head around the intricacies of this arcane craft.
this always reminds me of the mythbusters where they have the dinner party with people who don’t know they’re getting germ’d up.
pretty ‘enlightening’ … in both senses of the word.
Mythbusters is awesome.
There’s a big difference between coughing in someone’s face and coughing in someone’s general direction…so which is it? As long as this guy isn’t inches from your face it really doesn’t matter which direction the cougher is facing. If they are near you you’re still going to inhale that shit, especially in poor ventilated areas.
I have to watch that episode again.
haha reminds me of this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVvgo1wxh4
It’s time to offend OB. Tell the idiot to stop coughing on you.
get a can of lysol and spray his ass 🙂
Ask politely that he stop coughing near you and have some consideration… but for you, the best way to stay healthy is wash your hands with soap and water, eat right, get enough sleep and get enough physical activity. Sometimes it’s hard to avoid colds (I take the bus every day, I can’t even imagine how many germs my body comes in contact with) but at the very least taking those steps will help you get over sickness faster.
OB you’re obviously way to freaked out by a few germs…I hope no one ever tells you how much bacteria & germs are on your skin, or -GASP- in your gut.
Our preoccupation with cleaner & cleaner enviorment, is why people are becoming more suseptible to alergies & breathing disorders than ever before.
A supressed immune system is a nonfunctioning immune system !
The OP must work with the same group that made up all that hype over H1N1.
Op my BOSS is the same. Then he closes the door to our unventilated 2 person office. And he wonders why I’m always sick a couple days after him.
a “few days later” is not enough. You didn’t get it from them.