December 11, 2004

• Typhoid Mary and Her Kin...       I have an inordinate distaste for shopping during the winter months. It has nothing to do with the crowds, or the frantic rush of people to out-do last year's gift, buy for that person who you really don't know what to get them, or those who go nuts over the !!!ONE DAY ONLY !!!! or !!!50% OFF TODAY ONLY WITH THIS COUPON!!! sales. **Ok, I am not ashamed to admit it..."I" often hit those sales. Not necessarily for Christmas gifts, but I wait until this time of year for necessary things, or replacement of warn out do-dads because of the terrific prices.**    What I take great exception to are those who INSIST on going shopping while in the throws of some virulent disease. Why in the heck is it an earth-shattering necessity to go out to get underwear when you sound like your are coughing up a lung?? Why does one HAVE TO GET that scarf from Old Navy??!! Why will their lives NOT BE COMPLETE without that Shrek video...**HEY ONLY $11.88**??!!  Why is it people drag out their child for milk when the kid has mucus running out of every orifice ?? **not to mention the fact that kids sneezing and hoarkin' and honkin' and having gobs of mucus coming out of their nose makes me violently nauseous**     Ok...I know people have to provide their kids with food or medicine and sometimes you just HAVE to go out. But more often then not people just won't take the time to sit home and let someone else do running for them, or just SIT THE FREAK AT HOME until you don't make others ill!   EVERY BLASTED' TIME myself or my husband or daughter have gotten sick for the past 4 years, it has been after we have been shopping! Every time I get some virus, it goes into my sinuses and I wind up with a nasty sinus infection, then it goes into my chest and I get a nasty cough. Last year,  New Year's Day I went shopping and wound up with something that gave me a mild case of pneumonia. Can I just TELL YOU how ticked off I was about that? You and I both know that someone HAD TO GET THAT HOLIDAY wrapping paper at 75% off. How many people did they make violently ill through their thoughtlessness ??? How many elderly or young were hospitalized? How many family bread winners lost a day's pay and put their family deeper in debt from their rudeness and lack of common sense.    I hate touching shopping carts anymore.  I think I am going to start carrying medical gloves and wear masks when shopping from November to March, like the people in Hong Kong were doing last year when that terrible virus was going around.  Then I want to go home and boil the clothing I was wearing. I carry the gel disinfectant with me at all times, and I wipe down the shopping car, my hands, the cart again, etc. People are just NASTY.    Hey maybe I can start a new trend...You heard it here first. Best start buying up boxes of medical gloves and masks.   But not if I get there before you.... ;oD   Did I mention that last year my daughter got head lice from someone at the dance class she takes at the local rec center? *shudder* It makes my stomach roll just to think about it. Now, realizing that I don't have my child in public school for a multiple number of reasons **oh geez, just typing the word lice makes me itch*, the fact that I put my child in a dance class through a local rec center, and it is held at the school where she would go if she went to public school irritated me to no end. Can you just FEEL the thrill I felt about it? Comon...try harder. I know you can feel it from there...   Oh, and it took a ton of work to get rid of the nasty things, then, she got them BACK at the time of the recital because whatever back stage mom there was, must have gone from the contaminated child to Brenna's head. This year, I am going to have to be a stage mom I suppose, or make durn sure that NO ONE touches Brenna's head except me. Once more, I will wind up looking eccentric and freakish in order to protect my family. *sigh*.   Something else ...I refuse to touch the doors of public bathrooms.I now grab a paper-towel, or if it is one of those LOVELY **not**  bathrooms where they refuse to put in towels, I use the bottom of my coat or shirt to open the door to leave the bathroom. Or my shoulder.   I also won't touch pens at registers. I carry my own and don't care if I have to stand there five minutes digging for it. I can virtually SEE all the fungi and virii crawling all over that little piece of plastic.   I have a solution. I say that those who are sniffin' and hackin' and hoarkin' and mucusin' in public, have to yell *or cough or hack* UNCLEAN before they approach people. Wear a cloth wrapped round their head, and medical gloves.   There should be a little cover that goes over shopping cart handles, like there is for toilet seats. Even perhaps a special " For Virus and Fungus Sufferers" cart section.    Or maybe we can just lock em' in a room like was done to Typhoid Mary.   OR THEY COULD STAY OUT OF PUBLIC until they aren't contagious. Maybe then my husband wouldn't have been home sick for the last 3 days. And I wouldn't be fighting a stomach virus. I haven't had a stomach virus in 7 or 8 years. I have taken stock out in Astragalus, Vitamin C and colloidal silver.   Ok..its Saturday. And more the fool me...I have a 50% off one item coupon for Joann ETC that is only good today. I am going to brave the crowds and the various pathogens they carry with them.   I am armed and ready with my disinfectant gel and medical gloves.     Blessings...                                                                                    Kathie

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