When saying 'Atishoo" is more dangerous then "hijack"!
This entry is not in any way an attempt at being blase about the flu virus that sat smug in a swine till it worked on its karma and got an upgrade to human abode. (The little brat quietly yet successfully got to be priority #1 in the agenda of change of a probably stunned President Obama! Like he didn't have enough already).
I was returning home after a particularly loooong day at work with most of my grey cells somnolent. That's probably why I found the situation I'm about to describe amusing rather than alarming! :)
While hanging on in the NYC subway (surely the largest breeding ground for our little friends), I noticed a regular Latin-American looking man sitting with his hands strategically placed near his nostrils and mouth. It was not clear to me if he was trying to form a hand mask. In the city where nobody cares, i continued observing him not worried about how rude I might seem. It soon became apparent to me that the poor man was struggling to stifle a sneeze and a cough, or perhaps several of them. But how long can one hold off that irritation in the nasal follicles (too much info??) and he had to let go a reasonably loud 'atishoo'! The reaction was not as dramatic as I'd have liked it for this journal entry. But nonetheless he had some immediate neighbors stop what they were doing and cast contemptuous looks.
It is of course nobody's fault and everyone's reactions are well in place. But I couldn't help wonder that the day had arrived when 'atishoo' was no more innocuous.
Nature's wicked humour, would you say, where he would have gotten away with screaming 'hijack' but not 'atishoo'!
I was returning home after a particularly loooong day at work with most of my grey cells somnolent. That's probably why I found the situation I'm about to describe amusing rather than alarming! :)
While hanging on in the NYC subway (surely the largest breeding ground for our little friends), I noticed a regular Latin-American looking man sitting with his hands strategically placed near his nostrils and mouth. It was not clear to me if he was trying to form a hand mask. In the city where nobody cares, i continued observing him not worried about how rude I might seem. It soon became apparent to me that the poor man was struggling to stifle a sneeze and a cough, or perhaps several of them. But how long can one hold off that irritation in the nasal follicles (too much info??) and he had to let go a reasonably loud 'atishoo'! The reaction was not as dramatic as I'd have liked it for this journal entry. But nonetheless he had some immediate neighbors stop what they were doing and cast contemptuous looks.
It is of course nobody's fault and everyone's reactions are well in place. But I couldn't help wonder that the day had arrived when 'atishoo' was no more innocuous.
Nature's wicked humour, would you say, where he would have gotten away with screaming 'hijack' but not 'atishoo'!