Getting stir-crazy. Since I was cooped up all yesterday, and since I had to go to work today, I permitted myself some normal creature comforts -- specifically, getting breakfast at McDonald's and a Coke from a vending machine before coming home. I needed to get gasoline, too, and honestly, if I didn't need to get gas, I wouldn't get McDonald's or Coke. I'd just go straight to work, then straight home.
But I'm freaking out that washing my hands with soap and water, or squirting sanitizer onto my hands, won't be enough. For example, someone also working coughed while walking down my hallway, and I don't know if she covered her mouth. I crossed her path because I needed to change channels on satellite radio. Do I have it?
Meanwhile, I went to two Cub Foods to get a Coke. The first didn't have a vending machine. The second did -- it's the one closest to me, so I knew it did -- but they wouldn't take credit cards. I thought about getting it at the gas station, but that would mean I would have to go into another place and physically getting it, and that also means interacting closely with a cashier. So I went inside the second Cub instead.
Hey, I had heard about shortages on toilet paper and sanitizer, but I was looking for a Coke and I didn't find any ... except for one final Pepsi at this last cooler. So I pay for it with a credit card at the self-checkout and I leave ... and some young man, helping bag groceries as part of a fund drive, clears his damn throat. Fuck me. Do I have it?
Oh, and come to think of it, finding the very last cold Pepsi seems strange. And I was thinking about how I probably contracted the coronavirus because of that little shit when I opened the Pepsi and, you know, I don't remember hearing that "whoosh" indicating that the bottle was sealed. Was the reason I found it because it was already opened? Was some asshole trying to put somebody's life at risk? Do I have it?
But I'm freaking out that washing my hands with soap and water, or squirting sanitizer onto my hands, won't be enough. For example, someone also working coughed while walking down my hallway, and I don't know if she covered her mouth. I crossed her path because I needed to change channels on satellite radio. Do I have it?
Meanwhile, I went to two Cub Foods to get a Coke. The first didn't have a vending machine. The second did -- it's the one closest to me, so I knew it did -- but they wouldn't take credit cards. I thought about getting it at the gas station, but that would mean I would have to go into another place and physically getting it, and that also means interacting closely with a cashier. So I went inside the second Cub instead.
Hey, I had heard about shortages on toilet paper and sanitizer, but I was looking for a Coke and I didn't find any ... except for one final Pepsi at this last cooler. So I pay for it with a credit card at the self-checkout and I leave ... and some young man, helping bag groceries as part of a fund drive, clears his damn throat. Fuck me. Do I have it?
Oh, and come to think of it, finding the very last cold Pepsi seems strange. And I was thinking about how I probably contracted the coronavirus because of that little shit when I opened the Pepsi and, you know, I don't remember hearing that "whoosh" indicating that the bottle was sealed. Was the reason I found it because it was already opened? Was some asshole trying to put somebody's life at risk? Do I have it?
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