# Dammit, Keep Your Drippy Cold Home over the Weekends! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399 "2018-03-11T21:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/1 "2018-03-11T21:45:21Z")
So I’m at Starbuck’s, relaxing as I like to do on my days off, a nice book, maybe a Sudoku puzzle. If I’m really on point, maybe a little writing… Well, no, not this time. Somebody with a wet, drippy, nose snorking, sneezy, coughing cold came in, and took the last table, right next to mine. I spent half an hour cringing away, hoping my hardcover book would shield me, as this sick bitch spewed her virus infested snot with every violent outburst emerging from her struggling lungs. Now, I understand having to go to work while sick. Some places don’t have generous sick day allowances, and a lot of people can’t lose that day’s pay. I get it. A worker’s life sometimes sucks, and we have to do the best we can. But if you’re wet drippy sick and you go out to Starbuck’s or somewhere just to get out of the house on a nice day? I’m sorry, but you’re a fucking asshole. Stay home until you aren’t spewing germs anymore. Christ, I’m glad that happened after I had already visited my mother in hospice. If it had happened before, I would’ve canceled my visit for fear of giving it to her. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/2 "2018-03-11T22:21:13Z")
What chained you to your chair for 30 minutes? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/3 "2018-03-11T22:33:24Z")
It took awhile to realize how sick she was, and I liked the spot where I was sitting. Why should this be my fault? Why should I be made to give up things because of someone else’s assholery? Why do fucking assholes follow me around making my life miserable? That’s what I’d like to know. ---
**Author:** ![DoggyDunnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/4 "2018-03-11T23:28:25Z")
I definitely understood not wanting to get up after you’re posted up, but I would take moving spots over catching a nasty cold any day. There are just a whole lot of people who have zero concern for what impacts they may have on others. Most people, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/5 "2018-03-12T00:02:58Z")
I at first tried to parse the title as being about freezing houses with roof leaks everywhere, or such, but eventually gave up trying to figure out why someone would try to force said domicile on someone else, but only on Saturdays and Sundays… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/6 "2018-03-12T00:34:16Z")
I swear I am gonna start wearing a mask in town. Every eff-ing body is coughing and hacking. I have been Ill and taking Cipro for a week, I certainly don’t want a virus. I am with you, Two many cats. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-keep-your-drippy-cold-home-over-the-weekends/810399/7 "2018-03-12T13:33:00Z")
From the OP: > [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Somebody with a wet, drippy, nose snorking, sneezy, coughing cold came in, and took the last table… Looks like getting up and moving wasn’t an option. Obviously sick person goes out to mingle in crowded coffee shop = no bueno. I don’t see why that’s difficult to understand.