Oink Oink, it isn't the pigs spreading the disease!!

I've never been the type to panic over the type of fear-mongering that is going on right now with this out break of swine flu. I'm healthy, I eat right, I exercise regularly, drink plenty of water and somehow by the grace of god, I managed to avoid completely any illness this past winter.

That's not to say that there haven't been times when some people have tried to FORCE it on me with their lack of manners.

Case in point today. I went to the curves gym and there was a woman coughing and barking constantly. I look up to see her cough and a wad of phlegm flies out of her mouth and lands on one of the cushions on the machine...O . M . F. G !! She goes and gets a tissue, wipes it up, does NOT use the disinfectant we have there for cleaning our mats with, and the horror of horrors, I watched her put the wadded up ball of phlegm soaked tissue on the CD player!!...

Ummm, right, well I won't be touching THAT cushion, and when I did have to use that machine, I elbowed the cushion off. Used the machine and when I was at the recovery station, I hear her talking and shes saying to me that, and I quote here people, "Proper etiquette means putting the cushion to the side for the next person".

I just looked at her and toed the cushion back toward the machine. There wasn't a chance in hell I was gonna touch it lol

I said NOTHING...10 years ago, I would've ripped a strip off her right then and there cos after what I just witnessed, I would've lost it. Either I'm growing up and understanding that there are always people like that or I just can't be bothered by the drama. People like that don't see their own flaws but they can't wait to point out others.

I did tell the girl that was in charge today about it, pointed out the tissue, laughed about her having the nerve to say anything to me about etiquette after what she did and the girl says to me " I don't understand, shes a very religious, church going type of person". I just looked at her blankly, thinking, what the hell does THAT have to do with someone being a pig? Obviously in this woman's view, cleanliness is NOT next to godliness. That much is clear lol

I slathered my hands with sanitizer to the wrists and even wiped some of it around my mouth and nose, just in case. I'm not a germaphobic obsessive going around continually washing but good grief people, a little common sense here.

I think the worst part of what she did was the assumption that someone else wouldn't mind picking up a revolting dripping tissue cos she couldn't walk 8 feet to the garbage can. The nerve astounds me.

The pigs that go around spreading their germs and diseases willy nilly with no regard for anyone else are unfortunately very much of the HUMAN variety.

Sad isn't it that people are so lacking in common sense when it comes to not spreading germs that viruses spread so quickly. After that little display today it's no wonder.

Cathy