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22 June 2006

I was just in the drug store, and a woman was on her cell phone. →[More:]As she seemed to follow me around the store, she told whoever was on the other end that she is "highly contagious" and to clean with rubbing alcohol every surface in the house that she may have touched. She also said that she's "extremely freaked out."

I hope it's not bird flu. And I really hope she'd have to touch me for me to get whatever it is she's got. I tried really hard not to breathe when she came close. Yuck.

post by: amro at: 13:40 | 11 comments

It could be something like conjunctivitis. That will spread really easy, and you have to wash your hands and everything you touch, else your whole family will get it too.

It's not bird flu, SARS or ebola. If it were that lady wouldn't be up and at the grocery store. It is definitely freaky though...

posted by SassHat 22 June | 13:44

She's a double idiot then. She automatically loses points for having a loud conversation in a place of business, in my book. And the contagion thing? Yeah, I might have punched her. And then I would have bathed in Purel.

posted by mudpuppie 22 June | 13:44

It was probably just the clap.

posted by cmonkey 22 June | 13:56

Poison ivy, maybe? Can you get that from touching something an infected person has touched? Neither poison ivy nor conjunctivitis really explain why she would be so freaked out though, unless she's just easily shaken.

I drank some Airborne about an hour ago (feeling a cold coming on), so hopefully that fortified me if her thing is, uh, airborne.

Oh, I can't stand it when people walk around stores talking on their phones. It's like they're scared to spend a few minutes alone with themselves. And if this call was a huge emergency, than she should have made it outside.

posted by amro 22 June | 13:58

The oil from poison ivy spreads all over everything, and you have to wash yourself, all your clothes, and anything you may have touched before you realized you had it. I just went through this at my friends' cottage last weekend, although it didn't bother me, since poison ivy is the one thing in the whole world I'm not allergic to.

The sores from poison ivy, once cleaned to remove the oil from the plant, are not contagious.

posted by SassHat 22 June | 14:23

Fun fact: Mango trees are related to poison ivy, and some people have strong reactions to the fruit.

posted by mudpuppie 22 June | 14:32

She could also have been a culture jammer trying to flip you out with her "performance".

posted by Smart Dalek 22 June | 14:45

love the trivia mudpuppie.

posted by dabitch 22 June | 15:31

Wow, I have mango trees and eczema, who knew?

posted by green herring 22 June | 16:31

Witness the mango handprint:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by mudpuppie 22 June | 16:59

My two year old niece had a bad reaction to cashews recently, and the doctor told her mother to keep her away not only from cashews, but also mangos, and latex. So no cutting up fruit and nuts while wearing disposable gloves for her.

posted by redvixen 22 June | 18:07

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