Everyone hates having a cold. You sound like you're drowning, you can't hear, smell, or taste anything, and there is absolutely nothing that will make the misery go away. But having been sick recently, I realized there are four not-so-typical reasons why having a cold sucks.
1. It impairs your singing. When I went to church choir with a cold, my director kept making fun of me because the end of every song was punctuated by a cough from me. It's also annoying when you're singing with your quartet as the bass line and you crack constantly. Nobody likes a cracker.
2. Germaphobes. Everyone's afraid of the sick kid who's always sniffling or coughing or sneezing or some combination of the three. You have to cough away from people, and sometimes you just get bored with coughing into your elbow or toward the ceiling. Also, I don't know about you, but my hands get so dry they're about to fall off.
3. The common cold is never enough reason to stay home from school. How many people do you know who have stayed home from school with a case of the sniffles? None, I tell you. They come to school and sit miserably quarantined with a pile of tissues on their desk.
4. Medicine sucks. Who made up the dumb rule that after the age of 12 we would make no effort whatsoever to make medicine relatively palatable? I mean, come on! I miss my bubble gum-flavored ear medicine and cough medicine lollipops! Now I have to stomach Nyquil and Mucinex, without even the slightest hint of flavor or happiness.
Are you sick right now? Go ahead, whine about it in the comments!
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