So maybe this makes me the worst couch-sitting/dinner eating/spit swapping buddy in the world, but after an entire week of 'I don't get sick! Have a drink of this thing of mine! Give me a kiss! Sleep in my bed even though you've got an extremely high fever and there are germs the size of gerbils crawling all over you!', Cakeypants came down with it.
I'm torn on the issue. Torn between:
"Neener Neener Nee-ner! Neener Neener Nee-ner! I'm mostly bet-ter! And You're getting si-ick! Neener Neener Nee-ner!"
and
"Shit. This means he's going to be sick and cranky all week, and I'm just too much of a sympathetic muttonchop not to be kind about it. GAA! Why can't I be more of an asshole?"
Not to mention that we're going to his FAMILY REUNION* tomorrow, which obligates his mother to hate me for infecting her little boy.
Okay, here's where the disgusting part starts. The Squeamish and those who'd rather not ruin any good opinion of me should skip the following.
DISGUSTING
So I'm at the point of post infection where all my body wants to do is get rid of all the surplus mucus it's created for it's damn self over the last few days. This means the same kind of death rattle coughing I had in the beginning, except now, I get a little prize at the end. I'm spitting out what look and feel like little balls of Brie. So my question is this: Are these circumstances such that it's okay for me to discreetly spit in public, if I don't spit where someone is going to walk? Any post-Idaho ettiquette I've developed says 'No, probably not', but I'm really hoping there's a 'You Had The Shittiest Cold Ever, Spit At Will' clause.
/DISGUSTING
*I'm totally starting to panic about this Day With Boy's Entire Extended Family thing. Doesn't meeting the family usually put kids on the fast track to breakup? Whatever. I'm in love with the girl at the thai place on Brodadway, anyway.
You are *supposed* to hoark into a kleenex and ball it up. Dispose promptly. Less chance of snot hanging on your lip in public, too.
Posted by: dayment at September 26, 2003 10:21 AMYeah, and at this point it probably helps to carry a lot of them around. Forget the cloth hanky route -- Nobody should have to carry a soggy ball of muccussy cloth around with them all day. Blech!
Posted by: THE COMTE at September 26, 2003 10:42 AMit's god's fault that cake got sick
Posted by: Erin at September 26, 2003 11:58 AMIt depends if you're a good spitter. If you cant really clear your own lips, and you have to let it fall out of your mouth, then really, that's pathetic, get a tissue as suggested. But if you can hawk one from the side walk a decent way into the street, or straight into a storm drain, rock on!
Posted by: UnderwearNinja at September 26, 2003 12:18 PMErin:
That's exactly what he said! and then he pinched me.
Posted by: sonya at September 26, 2003 01:14 PMSpitting in public = more germs for everyone.
Although yesterday while trying to wrap up a class with 8 5-year-olds I sneezed an uncontrollable sneeze resulting in a handful of yellow snot.
You know what they say, "wish in one hand..."
Posted by: Ida at September 26, 2003 02:41 PMVery good site, congratulations!
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