So I’m just getting over a cold. Of course, on the train to work, I’m suddenly surrounded (almost literally) by sniffling, red-nosed people. But I get off and I think I’ve gotten away clean. Then, just as I get to the top of the stairs to exit the tunnel, this guy walking towards the escalators down lets rip three great big sneezes right in my direction WITHOUT any attempt whatsoever to cover his mouth! He had to have seen me; I was just maybe six feet (maybe more) in front of him! Even if he didn’t, it was STILL as thoughtless as hell.
If I’d been smart, I would’ve turned immediately around, gone back down the stairs, and taken the elevator to street level. But no, I wasn’t thinking. I tried turning away and inching around this guy’s cloud of mucus as much as possible. God knows if I succeeded.
Of course, I wouldn’t have to think of any of this if the dude had just covered his freaking mouth! I do NOT want to go through another eleven days of coughing and aching just because some random [insert worst epithet you can think of] couldn’t be bothered not to infect the rest of the world. (Of course, with my luck, it won’t be a cold, but something worse, like swine flu… So I’ll get what I want without actually getting what I want. :P)
(Then, of course, later I’m confronted with someone who coughed for almost a minute straight, if not longer, but at least she was further away from me. If only I knew what she was coughing ON…)
grumblemumble… It’s freakin’ JUNE… Isn’t cold season over?! 
