runny noses and cops

Attention YMCA members and staff:

Please, oh please, do not ever again bring your sick children into my care. Before you leave the house, do a thorough check of overly running noses, random sneezes that could be in people's faces, and any and all uncovered coughs. If your kid is too young to cover his mouth when he coughs, keep him home.

As a result of the wonderful children I work with, I am now insanely sick. Been sick all weekend. So, I call in Monday morning (45 minutes before my shift started, mind you) and told them I was sick and not only was about to calapse but didn't want to infect any other workers or children. You know what I got for my kind gesture? "Well, I need you to find a sub. Start calling down the list and find one and then call me back and let me know". BLEH! My first sick day in the whole 6 months I've worked there... So, I sat there for 2 hours calling people with no results. And then I went to bed.

It's kind of morphing every day. Each day I wake up with new symptoms. Today is the worst cough, right underneath when I had bronchitis. Hopefully my friend bronchitis hasn't returned for a visit. We didn't get along very well last time.

So, I decided to drive to the store for cough syrup. I was in my sweats and somehow forgot to wear my glasses. I got there and had to stand really close to the stuff to see them, and find one that would work.. hopefully no one walked by and saw. And then, I got in my car and there's a cop sitting in the spot next to me, with his car still running. I can't see a thing except for lights and I didn't have my license with me... brilliant. I decided to pretend like I was warming up my car and waited for him to leave. I didn't want to stay there too long and be suspicious so I left, very cautiously. Just as I expected, he followed me! I was so freaking scared that my cough was almost gone! At the light he turned the opposite way though... phew. I probably won't do that again.