Loathing people who are casual about the health of others...

The BBQ Pit
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And I’m not just talking anti-vaccination folks and their ilk; I’m talking about basic common courtesy, here.

This morning, on the way to work, I was waiting at a crosswalk for the light to change. A couple of women were standing a few feet away. One of them, a smoker, starts coughing and hacking. I turn to see that she is coughing directly at me. No attempt whatsoever to cover her mouth. No attempt whatsoever to turn away from anyone. No attempt whatsoever to lower her head. She is just standing there, coughing strongly RIGHT at me. If I didn’t know better, I’d say she was doing it deliberately.

So I sort of try to get further away, not wanting to catch yet ANOTHER cold this year and miss more work with the wonderful fever that usually accompanies (assuming that it was illness and just not smoking, which it could’ve been). So that was bad enough. What really got me mad was seeing her walk away with her friend; her body language indicated to me that she was making FUN of me for having reacted to her spreading of her lung juices all over the place. (I admit I may have been wrong, but considering what she’d just done, it’d be in character, IMO.)

This kind of lack of (as I said) basic common courtesy REALLY cheeses me off. At least with minimum wage workers, they’re only coming in to work and sneezing all over your fries because they don’t feel they have any choice. People like that woman have NO excuse.

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Well you did the only thing a man can do when a woman makes FUN of him. Get on a message board and beg for sympathy.

Mission accomplished. Do you feel better?

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Yeah, well, you spend a month and a half coughing so much that your chest aches and see how charitable you feel towards deliberate germ spreaders then. :stuck_out_tongue:

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You didn’t cough back at her with all your might? Let loose with a big hacking goober at her feet, bonus points if you hit her shoe? Weak-sauce dude.

I’m less careful about allergy related stuff when not especially close to anyone, because I’m not contagious, but still cough into my arm out of habit and out of consideration that the guy next to me doesn’t know it’s just allergies.

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You’re absolutely right. hangs head in shame I didn’t think of it at the time. I guess I just didn’t want to get any closer to her than I already was.

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I haven’t had anything contagious in I don’t know how long, but I’d never cough or sneeze “uncovered”, if for no other reason than it’s just rude.

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If you hadn’t turned to face her, she wouldn’t have been coughing into your face. She would have been coughing into the back of your head, which everyone knows is perfectly safe.

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She wasn’t behind me; she was to my right.

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That’s impossible. Women are never right.

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You should have just farted at her.

Regards,
Shodan

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Right after lowering your pants, bending over and spreading your cheeks. Why do anything half way?

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Man, I have been forced to work while sick as a dog before. And I’m handling food. I don’t just turn my head and cough, or cough into my arm, I turn my body completely the hell away from the direction of the food or the food contact surface. I then take several steps away, and aim towards the floor or a wall that’s nowhere near anything that touches food. Then, I will cough into my arm or grab a paper towel, cover my mouth, and sneeze.

If I’ve sneezed, the cloud of whatever is contained by the paper, then I wash my hands and change my gloves. If I’ve coughed, my mouth is closed. Why on earth would you cough with your mouth OPEN? This isn’t a sneeze. There is very little in the way of air that needs to escape, and what little air does leave goes out your nose without making a cloud of whatever.

I also just pretend like everything I’ve touched is raw chicken, and that my hands are just constantly being contaminated. I just wash my hands every few minutes.

I serve hundreds of people every day. When I serve them, they’re eating fresh, non-expired, properly prepared and cooked food, handled by freshly gloved or freshly washed hands, and rarely if ever would I even need to touch the food directly in the first place.

If I didn’t pay attention to such basic sanitary concerns, I could get hundreds of people sick.

I guess it’s on my mind because it’s my entire job to make sure germs don’t spread.

I tell you who is really nasty- the rest of you fuckers who use the bathroom in my restaurant and friggen shit all over the seat, or piss on it, and I know you’re not using the sink to wash your hands because it’s bone dry. And I really gotta congratulate you on somehow managing to get piss on the entire seat, not just a sprinkle here or there. That means you were aiming at the seat itself, and ended up probably splashing the front of your pants, just to make life miserable for everyone else. And it’s not just the men, but the women. I mean that takes talent. Are you deliberately hovering over the seat, and moving around it, just so you can sprinkle your pee everywhere, ladies? I mean, I really don’t want to see it, but I’m morbidly curious as to how that’s even possible. Unless you’ve got a penis hidden under there, I’m impressed by your ability to* completely miss the hole* in the seat where your piss is supposed to go. I guess I’m just happy you’re not taking a shit in the sink, you whores.

Once again it is you, the general public, who are the fuck-ups. Not minimum-wage guy.

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Personally, I think a well timed, “Jesus Christ, Typhoid Mary, you think you could point that shit somewhere else?” would have done the trick.

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I always keep one ion the chamber for such opportunities.

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I love the Dope. All sorts of good ideas for next time. :smiley:

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Yes. Phlegm is nature’s hair mousse.

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Based on “There’s Something About Mary”, I thought it was a different bodily fluid. :slight_smile: