Mutant Junkie Germs..

Those of you who are not yet blessed with progeny may not be familiar with this phenomenon.. known as "the illness your child brings home from school"

An illness your child brings home from school will be the worst, most miserable, hateful sickness that has ever wrapped it's death like arms around you.

You will be so sick, you fear that you will actually live...and it will last so long as to devour all of your carefully accumulated sick leave you had planned to sparingly use to alleviate the holiday drought from Presidents day to Memorial day.

Because regardless of what a hardass you may view yourself as, the "brought-home-from-school illness" with have you buried in Kleenex and cough drop wrappers and your entire wardrobe will have a slight scent of Vicks Vapo-rub for weeks.

Your co-workers will shun you, scuttling across the hallways like roaches when they see you skulking and wheezing toward them (since this is now day "whatever" and you have refused to use more sick leave, you have come to work)

This is why, when your little angel is actually old enough to attend school other parents smirk. You will say "Oh my child is clean"
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
There is are always families that send their children to school sick, and it matter not HOW sick they are (I've received not ONE but TWO letters alerting "us" that a child with Scarlet Fever has been sent to school)
Now the school has also sent repeated letters home, imploring parents to please not send their vomitting/dysentery wracked child to school until said symptoms have been absent for a full 24 hours. Ditto for fevers, and various other plagues.

Luckily for you, I am so sick I am not going to digress into my rant against employers in this godforsaken country.
Is it co-incidence that we have THE WORST personal leave policies of any industrialized country?

I'm sick as hell and I'm going to hack/wheeze/sneeze on Congress!

p.s. please forgive any grammatical errors or misspellings is the above post, I simply cannot be arsed to do anything but ramble..