Quarantined

When you’re sick, at first people are sympathetic. They ask you how you’re feeling. They offer you chicken soup. They tell you to drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest.

After a couple of days or so, that attitude changes from sympathetic to annoyed. They see you shuffling around with your tissues or your cough drops and whisper about how you’re “really milking it.”

If you have the misfortune of being sick for more than a solid week, the feelings of annoyance turn to fear and disgust. Whatever you have, they don’t want it. This is when you’re no longer welcome to breathe their air.

Thanks to my horrendous cough, I have been quarantined since Tuesday.

This is when I miss having cable.

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