A few weeks ago, my sister the ex-mayor's wife asked if we wanted to meet up for a mini casinopalooza. Of course we did! I guess I could call it a CasPlooza. Just the four of us, not the whole family. Sis and the Ex-Mayor would be leaving earlier, taking a different leg of a larger palooza, with more family.
Theirs would include time in Hillbilly Vegas, which everyone probably knows better as Branson. Not to Silver Dollar City, but to that Dolly horse extravaganza hand-eating show.
Sis contacted me last week.
"Are you afraid of the coronavirus?"
"Nope."
We left it like that for a few days. Then I called her.
"Are YOU afraid? We won't care if you decided to cancel. We can cancel our free rooms. But we'd probably just go anyway."
"OH, WE'RE GOING! I'm not afraid! Ex-Mayor thinks we shouldn't go. He gets EVERYTHING like that. He's had bird flu and swine flu and SARS and Ebola and the Zika virus, and something to do with tomatoes. I forget what that was about. Anyway, he always thinks he has it. I'm going to tell him to take some of those face masks he wears while mowing the yard, and then act like he's not with us. And if he doesn't like it, he can just sit in the car, or go back to the room!"
Heh, heh! The room where the maid has touched everything, and former occupants have done unspeakable acts. She'd better not mention that part.
3 comments:
Has your BIL had all those illnesses, or did he just think he had them?
If he's had them all, and none of you have, I'd march him ahead of the group with pride, because obviously he's a germ magnet.
Is there ANY reason at all to think Ex-Mayor could possibly have the virus? Has he been in contact with people who have recently travelled? Should he get himself tested? And if he does have it, your sister should also get tested because of the close contact. And the should both stay home and not go around infecting a whole casino. Those buttons on all the machines get pushed a million times a day by how many people? And they sure as heck aren't disinfected between players.
Sioux,
Only in his mind. He didn't even catch the Type B flu from his six-year-old granddaughter, who stayed with them all last week because of her high fever keeping her away from school.
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River,
NO! He has no more chance of having it that the rest of us around Hillmomba. No tests without symptoms. Everything you touch has already been touched! Including the food you buy at the store.
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