A week before Christmas the baby was sick for a night. She was throwing up and just miserable. The next day she slept a lot but was eating by that evening.
That was a Friday night. On Sunday Cari and I both started feeling sick and spent many hours on the couch. That evening we were throwing up and just miserable. Late Sunday night the boy came down with it. Our daughter was spared the illness because she has friends. She was spending the night with a friend while the rest of the family suffered.
All this illness in the house got me thinking about the weekend. I really thought I had done a decent job of avoiding the baby the night she was sick and even most of the next day. Apparently I didn't avoid ALL of the right places.
With the medical marvels we have in this country I'm putting in a request for a new product. When a family member starts to get sick you give them this pill. The pill won't make them better. That's not what's important here. What the pill does is cause the germ making them sick turn fluorescent. That way I could walk into my kids room to check on them, see that everything near the bed glows green, and quickly evacuate the room. When the germ dies, the color dies with it. Multiple people in your house sick at once? Use different color pills.
When you come home from work and there is a yellow glow in your bedroom, a green glow in the living room, and the kitchen glows red, then you know you're in trouble. But at least you would know when you found a safe spot in your home and could avoid the illness. Just find the patch of floor that isn't glowing.
Imagine going to work and your coworker has a nasty green glow around him. Well, maybe that's already the case for some of you, but if we had fluorescent pills, it would justify your fear of shaking his glowing hand.
Don't like my idea? What's your suggestion to avoiding the plague?
That was a Friday night. On Sunday Cari and I both started feeling sick and spent many hours on the couch. That evening we were throwing up and just miserable. Late Sunday night the boy came down with it. Our daughter was spared the illness because she has friends. She was spending the night with a friend while the rest of the family suffered.
All this illness in the house got me thinking about the weekend. I really thought I had done a decent job of avoiding the baby the night she was sick and even most of the next day. Apparently I didn't avoid ALL of the right places.
With the medical marvels we have in this country I'm putting in a request for a new product. When a family member starts to get sick you give them this pill. The pill won't make them better. That's not what's important here. What the pill does is cause the germ making them sick turn fluorescent. That way I could walk into my kids room to check on them, see that everything near the bed glows green, and quickly evacuate the room. When the germ dies, the color dies with it. Multiple people in your house sick at once? Use different color pills.
When you come home from work and there is a yellow glow in your bedroom, a green glow in the living room, and the kitchen glows red, then you know you're in trouble. But at least you would know when you found a safe spot in your home and could avoid the illness. Just find the patch of floor that isn't glowing.
Imagine going to work and your coworker has a nasty green glow around him. Well, maybe that's already the case for some of you, but if we had fluorescent pills, it would justify your fear of shaking his glowing hand.
Don't like my idea? What's your suggestion to avoiding the plague?
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