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Should I hang out with my germy friend for her birthday? My daughter, my ex-wife and I just got invited to a friend's surprise birthday dinner by her mom. It's cool, but we've heard through the grapevine that this friend of ours has the friggin' flu! 
Now, any normal person would stay at home so as not to infect others, but this friend would never turn down a free meal or the opportunity to run her mouth. Also, for some reason, she and her bratty-ass 2-year-old son -- who is constantly hugged up on my kid -- are always carrying viruses, etc. Just three weeks ago they came to my house touching and eating up everything to later call me from an ER warning me they had pharyngitus!!  I bleached down everything!
If she's now sick with the flu, I'm sure her son is sick, which means that if we hang out with them, we're all gonna be sick! It pisses me off that Typhoid Mary and Gary have zero social etiquette in keeping their germs to themselves. 
Would it be mean if we didn't go to her birthday dinner? Or should we go and just sit WAYYY on the other end of the table and not allow our daughter to play with her son? [This message was edited Sat Dec 20 10:54:34 PST 2003 by Lammastide] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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You could b subtle about it...
 [This message was edited Sat Dec 20 10:57:15 PST 2003 by SpcMs] "It's better 2 B hated 4 what U R than 2 B loved 4 what U R not."
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 Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Maybe it would be fun, but it would probably be much more of a relief just not going. Just say you have something else important to do. Even get a small gift, just don't breathe their air! 
Good luck.  Oh shit, my hat done fell off | |
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Kill them. Kill all of them. Flame throwers are good. I should use one on my social worker. Did you spill my prescription? | |
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I thought this thread was going to be racist towards Germans. I was all psyched up for outrage and then you go and give me a domestic quandry, I'm lost for words. "You know, you're the classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" | |
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Today is my birthday, you can hang out with me instead!  "It's that Coqui 900, can I have me a sip"
The evil cometh... | |
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Take a can of lysol with you and hose them down before dinner.
Personally, I wouldn't go and give them a reincheck & let them know why I don't want to go. Reminds me of my dad's girlfriend who had the stomach flu and christmas day. My father's side of the family usually gets together and have dinner, exchange gifts, etc. Well she insisted on going to the get together and I was sick with the flu myself and decided to stay home. Turns out 2 days later 7 of the 11 people at the get together came down with the stomach flu and three of them were on their way to Mexico when they got it. I wonder how that happened? What's even worse is that I got it also on top of flu I already had. I'm thinking it had something to do with the gift she dropped off that day.  [This message was edited Sun Dec 21 8:39:16 PST 2003 by sinisterpentatonic] | |
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