Do you pay cash for everything?
This for me except I never went to a doctor, and the toe injury was a dish rack dropping onto my foot, corner first, so its entire momentum was stopped by my shoe. My toe hurt for a few months but I figured, what exactly would the doctor do anyway and I am still functional.
Nope, in stores I usually pay with my debit card, bills per online bank transfer and ongoing charges by direct debit. Checks are a thing of the distant past in Germany, nobody uses them anymore, except maybe for some businesses. I wouldn’t even know if my bank offers the option to write checks with my account.
I thought that check nowadays were effectively debit slips, immediately verified via the same mechanism debit cards are.
You are so lucky. It’s not that it’s a bad song. It’s that it’s such an earworm.
Also, if there’s a child around, you may hear it over and over and over.
I have not used illicit drugs, either. Altho, I have been in the presence of people puffing away on joints and bongs, and “benefited” from secondhand exposure, I am sure. This was before legalization.
I haven’t officially broken a bone, altho I suspect I cracked my kneecap in a fall off my bike. I don’t think there is anything that can be done about a broken kneecap anyway, other than just wait it out.
Never had a tooth extracted, either. And I even wore braces in high school (head-gear and all).
[knock on wood for all the above]
I made it to age 62 without having a tooth extracted or a broken tooth, then in the last six months I’ve had both.
Pretty sure I never had a broken bone. In high school I jammed my middle finger really hard trying to block a shot playing basketball, and it was sore for a long time (months). I often wondered if maybe I’d broken it but eventually it quit hurting.
I’ve never had COVID (or as someone upthread said, at least I’ve never tested positive for it) and I don’t think I’ve ever had the flu, either. Colds, hell yeah, a few every year, but never the flu.
Just curious (and I am not challenging your assertion) - how can you tell the difference for any of these? My assumption is that all of us have had these by a certain age, even if you don’t have an official diagnosis or test? All three present in similar ways. How do you know?
I’ve never been fired.
You will know when you have the flu. I’ve had it once for sure. COVID was nothing (I had had the shot, so I think that made it easier), a bad cold is nothing compared to the flu.
My wife and I both had the flu at the same time about 18 years ago. It’s pretty much a haze now, I hardly remember a thing. I do remember that for some reason, I slept on a blow up mattress and my wife had the bedroom.
The saying goes that “You have the flu, when you see a 100 dollar bill in the yard, but can’t be bothered to go pick it up.”
Never been fired from my job either. Though, I did get laid off once. The company was basically shutting down I think. They no longer exist.
Well, like I said, with COVID I never tested positive for it. Any time that I thought I might have had it, and took a test, it was negative.
To me colds and flu are easily distinguishable. When I have a cold, my head is stuffed up for a week then I have several more days of coughing as everything drains. Lots of nose-blowing.
I’ve had family members who have had the flu and talk about nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, their entire body aches, they don’t want to get out of bed and just want to die. I’ve never had anything remotely close to that.
So, that’s me. YMMV.
I used to run out of gas at least once a year. I’ve gotten much better.
I’ve never thrown up in my adult life. I think I was 5 the last time. And in my younger stupider days I got pretty trashed often. I stopped drinking 40 years ago, so hopefully the not throwing up record continues unbroken
Happened to me just once- in a rental car with a defective gas gauge.
Not broken any bones.
Never smoked. Never done any illegal drugs.
Not missing much in the first, but the 2nd is on TV a lot in the season, give it a watch.
I have never worked in a fast food chain restaurant, or a gas station.
I am still on good terms will all my exes.
Only as a job requirement for the Treasury. Nothing there, 1040 EZ.
Commercials.
One show on shark week played it- it was nauseating. I have never watched SpongeBob, other than small clips.
It’s amazing how an illness that probably won’t kill you makes you feel like you’re dying.
COVID though… I finally got it in 2023. I had the worst headache of my entire life and my entire family was out of commission for a week. My son (then three) was inconsolable. I wanted to die. It was nothing like a cold. And I still have long COVID. It sucks.
Did you have vaccination? Because when I got Covid the first time in July 2022, I already had been vaccinated twice, and it wasn’t much worse than a common cold. I had it again in September 2024, and this time it was even milder than that.
Yes, and I’m sure that I also never had the flu. I’ve seen family members who had it and were miserable, and none of my colds were like that.
Yes, I got every vaccination they would give me. Which means it probably would have been worse.
Oh man, that sucks. Haven’t personally heard of any case where someone who was vaccinated and got Covid developed long Covid, and heard that it’s very rare in general.
I have a friend who has long COVID worse than me, and he’s had it even longer. He used to be a runner, now he can barely exert himself, sleeps every afternoon. Fully vaxxed. Some of us are just unlucky I guess. He’s so afraid of getting it again he won’t eat at indoor restaurants.
One thing that has been GREAT about getting sent to work at home, is I just don’t get the ‘common’ cold anymore.
I don’t work at work. I’m not around a lot of sick people that are around their sick kids and bring all that into the office. I haven’t had a cold in 7 years or so.
Never had food delivered.
(There is a caveat to that. I have eaten food that has been delivered to someone else’s home.)
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