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Today's Special: Cold Virus on Toasted Sourdough

Lowen Baumgarten

Jan 15, 2012 — 1 min read

It was a gray day today and I knew that if I didn't get out of the house I'd spend all of it streaming old episodes of Star Trek on Netflix. And I was hungry, so I grabbed my book, Tinker Tailer Solider Spy, and went to Mojo for a sandwhich.

They take their sweet time at Mojo, so I read a chapter while the guy made my lunch. It finally came up and I was munching happily when I overhead this exchange between him and his colleague behind the bar:

"I don't feel well man." Then, sotto voce: "I think I might be getting sick."

"Yeah," his buddy said. "Why you think you're getting sick?"

"I dunno, I've got that post-nasal drip, and my heart's racing, and I feel slightly euphoric," the guy said while making another sandwhich, without gloves, "Yeah, I know man. It's weird."

FML.

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