Comments on: An Open Letter to That One Woman Over There Who Keeps Coughing

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:17:11 +0000

Maybe the coworker would get a clue if you started wearing one of those midevil plague masks – it’s a like a foot long beak stuffed with potpouri strapped to the face.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:44:40 +0000

The epizoodic spread through our building like wildfire one winter, and the cause was pinpointed when building maintenance workers determined that the same exact air had been in the building since 1978, and there were some strains of enfluenza in the building that had evolved into upright mammals, which I suspected long before that.

By: Rarity

Rarity — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:18:55 +0000

Damn! That’s a funny entry!
(Even if it’s totally gross, and upsettingly true – it akes you (well me, anyway) want to stay at home permanently with barred doors)

By: jaymarie

jaymarie — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:42:39 +0000

jenny – did you say that you have never seen Tombstone?
tell me it’s not true.
i couldn’t tell you why, but it really is one of my favorite movies.
it just ROCKS!
must see Tombstone…

By: teahouseblossom

teahouseblossom — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:22:02 +0000

Euwww..get away from Typhoid Mary!! Wasn’t there a Seinfeld episode where Elaine worked in an office with a woman like that?

By: Pants

Pants — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:20:01 +0000

There is a coughing woman in my office, too. I’m tempted to forward this post to her.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:43:42 +0000

Dr. G – tell me you’re kidding about the health insurance. Don’t you work with radioactive gene splicing stuff all day long?
S: Mmmm… I remember the song “Mustang Sally,” but can’t recall “Typhoid Mary.” Can you hum a few bars?
H: Don’t even get me started on the no-hand washing bathroom people!
J: Brilliant! I would LOVE to put her out of her misery, believe me!

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:36:33 +0000

[clutching bleeding stomach] Aaargh… you got me! I’ll see you in hell!
[draws gun and shoots Clint Eastwood]
(Okay, so I’ve never seen Tombstone, but I imagine it was something like that.)
Doc Holiday had TB (Consumption). “Lunger” was the slang at the time. That was, like, you going over to her cubicle and shooting her, and stuff. OK never mind.

By: hooizz

hooizz — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:15:42 +0000

i like to go upto those kinds of people, shake their hand, and then whip out an industrial size purell which i use to bath my entire hands/forearms/biceps in it.
i also do this for people who ive personally seen walk out of the bathroom without washing their hands.
ha!
cheers
hooizz

By: shari

shari — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:59:56 +0000

Every workplace has its own “Typhoid Mary.” Didn’t Credence Clearwater Revival do a song about that?