Reply With QuoteThat stats they are putting out for this flu is nuts. 37 kids have died, a week ago a state (Missouri iirc) had 60,000 hospital flu admissions when last year the entire season total was around 6k. It hasn't peaked yet either.
I have escaped the flu so far this quarter, but I can feel it wanting to invade my body via thousands of 18 year old germ factories. Attacking my old person immune system at every turn!
Originally Posted by dechecho
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That stats they are putting out for this flu is nuts. 37 kids have died, a week ago a state (Missouri iirc) had 60,000 hospital flu admissions when last year the entire season total was around 6k. It hasn't peaked yet either.
I should really learn to quit jinxing myself.
I had it last week. Was in bed for 2 days.
I closed up an hour early last night and when home. Barely made it upstairs. Just wanted to shower and pass out. Someone was in the bathroom so I sat on the bed and went straight to passing out.
Aside from mucous pissing out my ass, I don't feel as crappy today. Hopefully I'm over the hump.
Damn. Diahrrea was the only symptom I didn't get. I think I am about 75% out of the woods on this flu but I am tired as shit. I still have no energy, just want to take a nap every few hours.
Pontius is my Co-Pilate
Popped a hemorrhoid. Growing up is stupid.
Boo, Hiss.
That sounds horrifically painful.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
It is stupid.
I wish I had video recording going in here. I can't believe I just had the experience that I did.
Dude walks in that may have been in here before, but if he was he didn't leave enough of an impression for me to recognize him. Which considering what follows seems improbable.
I greet him.
He asks, "What have you got for me today?"
I give my usual reply of "Fun and games."
"Awe, there's nothing you want to give me?"
"All I have to give are the waning embers of a vicious flu."
"Oh, you have the flu?!" He takes a few steps back.
"I'm over the worst of it." I only brought it up because my voice is hoarse and sounds like the voice of someone getting over a cold/flu.
"Oh ok. What do you have for good Super Nintendo games?"
I hate these questions. What the fuck does good even mean? Fun? Rare? AVGN approved? I rattle off the couple of semi popular games I have.
"I'm looking for Super Metroid."
"Sorry, it's been a little while since I've had that."
"Can't you order it?"
"Not really, it's just whenever it gets traded in again."
"I recall you had it for around $30."
I pause. That game hasn't been $30 here in quite some time. "Seems like it was closer to $50 last I had it."
"Oh man, you're really good at your job aren't you." Indicating he knew what it goes for but was trying to get me to agree to a lower price if I had it? I don't know. "Do you own this place?"
I usually just answer "yes," but since so many people around here know my partner because of his other businesses in the area- and like to act like I'm lying because oh no they know the owner- so then why did you ask if I was the owner...Anyway, I said, "Yes, I'm a co-owner."
"So this is like a franchise?"
"Something like that." I explain the rough idea.
"So you do all the work? You should buy him out."
Of course I start to get a little defensive here. I don't know this dude from Adam. "Nah, if it weren't for him setting up the business and forming the channels we all use now, this place wouldn't exist."
"Well, as long as he carries his own weight. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to give you business advice, I just came from the bank." On a Sunday? We get back to Metroid. "Do you have any of those Snes Classics?"
"Sorry, no. They aren't really supplied to my distributors." He then asks if I could order one what would it cost. I tell him I'd be buying it at retail so I'd be spending $88 after tax, so I'd want at least $100. To which he replied, "Then I guess I should take the 10 minutes to order it myself. Why don't you find it somewhere for $50 and I'll give you $88 for it."
"If I could do that, I'd have them in stock."
He then sees the box I have on display. "What about that one right there?"
"That's just the box for my personal unit that I have on demo."
"Can I try it?"
"Sure"
"I'm sorry if I seem like a dick."
"No, you're fine."
"Ok, I just don't want to seem like I'm giving you a hard time."
"Not at all." At this point, he was just another weirdo. Whatevs. But then the more brought it up, the more uncomfortable he made me feel. There's a lot I'm leaving out because he just kept repeating himself.
He's playing Super Metroid on the Classic and asks "How are you treating yourself after you get over the flu?" I didn't know how to answer. I told him I didn't understand the question. "Once you're over the flu, how are you treating yourself?" I said, "I don't know, I haven't thought getting over an illness was something I needed to reward myself for."
He then said, "No, to help get over the flu, what have you been doing to treat yourself." I stared at him for a second. That clearly is a very different question than what he posed the first two times. I reply, "Oh! Um, I've been mainlining vitamin C and taking zinc lozenges."
"Are you sure all that's going on with you is the flu?"
"Yeah, the past few days have been rough but I feel like the worst is behind me."
"No, really, I feel like there's something more going on with you than just the flu. You seem angry."
"Well, you keep putting me on the spot and it makes me uncomfortable because I don't know you. But I'm not mad."
"Hmm. Well, that's my job."
"Then you must be really good at it."
"I am. Listen man, no man is an island. Find someone to talk to." He then told me to go to a specific website which I've promptly forgotten and "just pick a name, whichever one stands out to you, and talk to them."
I just wanted the fucking dude to leave. "Ok, thanks."
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