I did not make it through mass this AM.
At first I was really excited because the church wasn't packed and it was 1030! However, even with a lot of space around me and not having to be crammed next to people in a pew I started having a lot of anxiety over what seemed like an alarming number of people coughing and sniffling. I know the priests have been really on the ball lately reminding wayward parents to get the super noisy crying children to the cry room, but you know what is worse? Adults who have hacking gross wet coughs who just keep coughing. If you can't contain yourself to not coughing through a mass perhaps you should still be home? And if your kid is also hacking up a storm you can completely stay home and take care of them and miss mass and it's not a sin!
I ended up leaving and standing in the back by fresh air until herds of children (mostly tweens) started coming through like a parade for the bathrooms during the homily-- a homily where I might add Father began by implying how ridiculous it was that children in the 7am were running in and out to the bathroom like it was the latest thing.
So yeah please stay away from me if you are sick. I'm not doing well with handling all of your sicknesses in public.
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Last week I started out in the cryroom but there was this dad in there who was holding a wadded paper towel up to his nose and leaning on the wall like he was going to pass out on one side of me, and then then the mom on the other side of me moved her daugther to the side of her away from me and Beatrix saying to her daughter, "you've got a cough" as if the cough germs couldn't travel that additional foot to reach me and Beatrix. I sat there feeling totally freaked for about a minute and then went outside to the vestibule. I thought I was safe. Then during the sign of peace I made sure not to look at anyone but a man still walked over to shake my hand, and in his other hand he was holding a wadded hankie! I waited a minute or two and then took Larkspur to the bathroom and we washed hands. After Mass we went straight to Wal-Mart and bought Listerine and hand sanitizer. Luckily today there were no sickies in the cry room that I could tell. I am totally turning into a germ phobe!
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