H E 2 sticks she did! :()
Yep walking along and this woman rushing past me. Hand bag in arm, phone in other (kind of like me) except I am not walking fast enough that she can’t outrun me. So yes she coughs into the now germ-filled air. Not necessarily covid- but could be?
And while I get annoyed by this as I’m just about to cross at the busy traffic lights -we’re all waiting -some patiently others no so. Lights change and there’s a race to get across before the lights change again and we get beeped or hit but that driver who is absolutely certain that because it’s green for him he can drive even if we’re in front of his vehicle- I digress. Anyway someone else is racing a across - a man now and they now sneeze into the air. What the???
And did I mention that every single window on my bus was shut? As I opened mine I wanted to yell - altogether now- let’s get some air in here but I kept politely quiet. I'm not sure why people don’t open a window on a hot bus? Maybe we all need time off work? I have no idea but I sometimes get the impression that the only people with a cold, flu or worse to share when they cough or sneeze are those who use a tissue or at least try to block it in someway. Anyhoo
I’ve positioned myself so I can board the train quickly but I am a distance from the edge- no risk takers here - well other than that with all the coughs/sneezes I haven’t pulled out a mask-yet
Finally I’m seated. And I giggle as I’ve just watched a couple of women probably on their late fifties race to get a couple of empty seats side by side. Nice, sweet and probably not so necessary as there were loads of other empty seats available but hey. Anyhoo
I’ve now got one bag on the floor (way too heavy to hold) my handbag on my lap with the straps around my wrists (absolutely no way in planet earth is anyone getting the opportunity to drag my bag without taking me with it! ;) and my phone in my hand. As I’m holding the handbag strap too I really have no more hands left. Oh how I sometimes wish for an extra pair. But hey.
Someone squeezes in front of me with an overpowering perfume. Kind of nice but way too much. Now my nose is tickling. And as I desperately look around for how I’m gonna grab a - and… before… I can even think it
it’s out! I have sneezed. Not once but three times. I watch as the space around me miraculously becomes vacant, all of a sudden the air a little clearer (perfume lady is gone. Do you hear? Completely gone!), I see people looking cautiously at me and covering their faces, while I’m thinking, come on, it’s not like I have germs?
This is Chanel Ling
Signing out until the next time