Despite our religious attention to avoid sick people, avoid children and use hand scrubbers everywhere, I have a Cold and I am feeling miserable.
This morning as I lay in bed I wanted Pat to call my Mommy (just like the TV ad). Unfortunately that cannot happen. Whenever I had a cold or flu and called my mother she would say “oh poor dear” It was only after I healthed up each time that I suspected she was being sarcastic given her problems, but it was always nice to hear.
What do I get from my wife… pick up your used Kleenex, stop grumbling, basically Buck up Boyyo. Now to be truthful when Pat had a cold last week (which is obviously the source of my contagion) my reaction was to avoid her. Women do not feel the agony of colds and flu like men do. It is a scientific fact. However she made a nice soup for me last night and the kind of baking powder biscuits that Mother used to make so I forgive her.
Still it would be nice if she tucked me in on the bed and kissed my forehead and said “oh poor dear you will get better”
November 20, 2012
rbellis11
Views From Paradise 
3 responses to “I have a Cold and I feel miserable”
Patty
November 20th, 2012 at 18:05
Remembering how last year’s cold ping-ponged between us all winter, I am reluctant to tuck you in and kiss your forehead. Maybe you can dream about me doing it instead!
Janine
November 21st, 2012 at 16:03
wow – both you and mom are brutal when it comes to colds. You know what I do when I get one? Get up and go to work.
rbellis11
November 21st, 2012 at 19:12
When you go to the office do you at least have the courtesy of wearing a face mask as they do in Japan? I think not. You just selfishly hope that everyone else gets infected. To be truthful, in the old days I would have gone to my home office and got so busy I forgot my misery, but when you are retired you can experience the full pleasure of moaning and groaning. Strangely I still go down to the shop in the afternoon and while working on the model the symptoms are less.