Please Point Your Cough Elsewhere
February 1, 2005
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
I went to a NOAA SkyWarn class on Saturday morning. It was held at the Richland Hills High School auditorium and several hundred people showed up. Unfortunately, the guy in the row behind me spent the whole morning hacking and coughing.
This is exactly why I hate going out where there are big crowds. You always get some shmuck who is bound and determined to attend the event despite being sick. The rest of us be damned. With both crowds and airplanes I seem to get sick about half the time within a few days of the event.
As expected, I feel like I’m coming down with the flu (or at least something similar) today.
Why can’t people have a little consideration for others and stay home when they’re sick?
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My problem is I tend to have a nagging cough, whether I am particularly sick or not, on top of my tendency to take forever to get over things. I’d be in the house about 200 days a year if I stayed home when sick or prone to coughing. Funny thing is, the coughing gets exacerbated by being out and about. Like in the doctor’s waiting room yesterday when the drowned in perfume woman walked by, then sat nearby, and just about killed me. Before going there I had been fine.
I tend to have a persistent cough as well, since I suffer from year-round allergies.
But I think people can recognize when they’re really sick and try to avoid spreading it when possible. The guy behind me sounded like he had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.