Paranoia Strikes
I had my first SARS scare yesterday. I was browsing magazines at the Borders up on Hennepin, which is attempting to unionize. I sat down with a couple titles on a little reading bench they have there next to another fellow browser. This guy immediately starts coughing these terrible little hacks that sounded like overblown throat clearers. And they just kept coming. Every 15 seconds another little burst of coughing. I lasted about a minute and a half. I quickly got my paranoia on and diagnosed this plague spreader with a full blown case of SARS. I threw my stack of ‘zines to the floor and bolted from the bench. Super-skedaddling out the door of Borders, I ran down to the public bathroom for a timely pathogen bath.