The Whine Flu

So. It appears that there is a new epidemic going around.

This isn't the famous and ever-so-popular-to-discuss-around-the-water-cooler Swine Flu. I'm talking about the whine flu.

While I can appreciate that people get sick, and sometimes aren't able to work or go about their daily activities as energetically as they normally would, it disturbs me that somehow the most popular time for these sicknesses HAPPEN to come around on Fridays. Isn't that odd? it sounds more like a i-wish-i-had-a-three-day-weekend disease than something that actually is keeping you down. It's especially comical when you see them spring in and make you listen to nonsense about their eventful weekend the following Monday! Of course, remembering to fake a cough every once in a while, so that we'll all remember how gravely ill they were on Friday.

Now, if there is a genuine disease, i'm all for you staying home--i don't want it!! Please stay away from me. My stash of sanitizing gel just isn't going to cut it if i'm being bombarded on all sides. I just don't think that disease shows up on schedule every friday. I don't think, that as the week progresses, you can feel the symptoms coming on enough that you need to verbalize them if it IS happening for real! Usually, for me, I may start to feel a little sick the day before, and then BAM! in the middle of the night it hits me. Or, right when i'm about to go visit someone, or do something fun! It's NEVER been convenient enough to start to give me symptoms on Wednessday..."Man, I just feel like somethings coming on! I hope I don't have to miss a day this week!"--escalating on Thursday to..."Maybe I shouldn't have come in...I just feel like somethings about to hit!" To Friday's eventual..."cough, cough...Kathy? I can't come in today. I'm so sorry! I just don't want to get everyone there sick!". As i said, if it's real? I don't want that either!

But this fake stuff, that happens for the weekends, BRING IT ON! Maybe I DO want that spring-in-your-step causing illness!!