This is Crazy, People

So today, I almost got chased out of the grocery store.

I'm sure all of you have heard about the swine flu thing - people are going insane about it. Dude. It's a strain of the flu. It is NOT that big of a deal. To declare Texas a disaster area because we've had one person die is really silly. In any case, because of all the sensationalist news, people are in a freaking panic around town.

I went to the grocery store to pick up a salad for lunch, and I coughed a little bit. Not like a sick cough - like a clear-the-throat-because-I-have-allergies cough. And this woman whirls around and says, in a horrible shrieky voice, "I can't believe you'd come in a public place being sick like that. Don't you know you're endangering people? Get out of here!"

She was just a shopper, not a manager or anything, so of course I didn't listen to her. I just raised my eyebrows and kept going. She was shouting at my back with stuff like, "Don't you go touching anything!"

It was both hilarious and pathetic.