{"id":1845,"date":"2012-01-24T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bottomless.flywheelsites.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-10-15T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:07:44","slug":"i-think-im-coming-down-with-the-subways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"I THINK I’M COMING DOWN WITH THE SUBWAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without fail the cold and flu season comes every year. I usually get off pretty easy and don\u2019t fall victim. But my\u00a0morning commute is really challenging my immunity to the season.<\/p>\n

Every day I am trapped in a box crawling with should-have-called-in-sick-days. I spend almost an hour of my day a sneeze and cough length distance away from a potentially crummy forecast. The subway lines are starting to sound like flu strands to me. I\u2019m at risk for the influenza 6 or 5 subtype N.<\/p>\n

The soundtrack of the morning subway is\u00a0full of sniffs, snorts, coughs, and other mucus filled noises. Amidst the sounds of the season, I can hear the subway alert, \u201ca crowded subway is no defense to unlawful sexual conduct” and all I can think is that they should add “in addition, a crowded subway is no justification for the thoughtless spreading of germs.” This constant and unsolicited negligence is a constant harassment from my fellow subway goers.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why some people (prominently older women) think it is sanitary to use the same tissue all day. I\u2019m pretty sure tissues, much like toilet paper, are not reusable and that’s why a box of tissues has hundreds of them. Those same women then use those same mangled tissues to hold the subway poles. I might as well wipe her\u00a0nose for her with my bare hand.\u00a0The subway poles are a great way\u00a0 to grab some germs.<\/p>\n

Although, I do sympathize with some<\/em> of the sufferers. I know the absolute anguish of trying to hold in a persistent and vengeful cough. Your throat goes from a tickle to an itch, your eyes begin to water, your neck convulses, and then finally some god awful noise escapes that was way worse than the original tickle. I think if it\u2019s coming out you might as well just let it. But I would prefer that you zip your head up in your coat to do so.<\/p>\n

The subway is filled with all kinds of different “whatever is going around the office,” and\u00a0I wonder how many different types of colds your body can acquire at once. I don’t ever want to be that cold. But I’m not sure that there is any way to\u00a0escape all of them.\u00a0I could wear these<\/a> and go full swine-flu mask, but I’d rather stay home sick than be that girl. I normally enjoy my sick days most when I’m feeling great, but since I have to ride the subway, I better save them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feed a cold, stay off the subway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[112,54,69,23,111,387],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyc","category-take-on-ny","tag-seasons","tag-subway","tag-transportation","tag-upper-east-side","tag-winter","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}