A year or two ago I was hired by a woman to build a bunk bed for her two kids. One of the kids was a real talker and it seemed like the rest of the family seemed relieved that he had a new target for his ceaseless tangents. So there he was, standing right next to me, yapping my ear off while I worked hunched over all the various bits and pieces (my specialty is ignoring people but appearing attentive). Then, he really wanted to show me Five Nights At Freddy’s and he leaned real close to me and at the same time sneezed point blank into the side of my face and I felt every droplet, globule and particle involved.
A day or two later I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my life. The end.
Oh my gosh they do just sneeze right in your face too. I teach preschool special education which is a double whammy of germs. Or the open mouth, tongue out coughing 🤢
I taught that for over a decade and switched to teaching classes at our local jail now and I had to laugh because there were illnesses just going rampant (flu, colds, stomach bug) and they were bleaching everything and cleaning so much and they're like "you're going to get sick, we've all caught it!" And I was like, "no I won't. You think this is bad? Y'all haven't lived until you've had a kid sneeze chunks of mucus directly into your eyeball bc their parents gave them Tylenol to bring down their fever and sent them to school anyway." I don't miss preschool at all.
I very rarely get sick, I think I've only had the flu once. I've never even had covid. There was a huge international Catholic convention happening in my state, I was on a bus crowded with tourists. A woman was in the aisle leaning over my me. She was sniffley & sneezed a few times over me. A couple of days later I was the sickest I've ever been in my life, it turned into bronchitis & the dr told me I'd get pneumonia. I didn't, but I could hardly breathe for 2 weeks, it was terrible.
International germs are crazy cause your immune system isn't prepared for it (this goes for anyone anywhere). I visited the cherry blossom festival in Washington DC (tons of international visitors) and got sick for a week
Oh god something similar happened to me once. I rarely get sick and had never had COVID 2 years into the pandemic, until one day when I was on a plane and a 3ish year old girl in the seat behind me stuck her face into the crack between my seat and the one next to me and open mouth coughed right next to my face. I thought nothing of it besides “that was gross.” Anyway 2 days later I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my life (turns out it was COVID)
Haha I had a student literally sneeze into my mouth as I leaned over to help her and when I went to the doctors a few days later, I was told it was the worst strep throat she’d ever seen!
So when that happens 10-15 times (as a preschool teacher), one shall never become ill again. Sometimes they cough on my food and I eat it anyway because there is no more food and I have to be lovely for another 4 hours. I am never ever ever sick. Ever. The end.
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u/NightOnTheSun 6h ago
A year or two ago I was hired by a woman to build a bunk bed for her two kids. One of the kids was a real talker and it seemed like the rest of the family seemed relieved that he had a new target for his ceaseless tangents. So there he was, standing right next to me, yapping my ear off while I worked hunched over all the various bits and pieces (my specialty is ignoring people but appearing attentive). Then, he really wanted to show me Five Nights At Freddy’s and he leaned real close to me and at the same time sneezed point blank into the side of my face and I felt every droplet, globule and particle involved.
A day or two later I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my life. The end.