Comments on: Going viral https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:20:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13550 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:16:46 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13550 In reply to J Nunn.

Damn! I forgot to call him a bohunkus thoughtless weevil! Thanks for fixing my lapse.

]]> By: J Nunn https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13549 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:12:18 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13549 As someone who was frequently strong armed into working shifts when I had respiratory infections in my sad employed-by-others-unworthy-to-ask-me-to-pass-the-butter past life, I so sympathize with Mr. Sumac (a delightful Persian spice delicious when sprinkled on basmati rice)(or a poisonous tree, yes ok) but also with the hilariously many named ill flyer…who might be a bohunkus thoughtless weevil but is surely also to be empathized with from all of us who were at one time or another under the financial/career thumbs of unkind management.

]]> By: SMcC https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13402 Sat, 05 Oct 2013 05:32:34 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13402 There are whole parts of the world where NOT wearing a face mask, if you even just appear sick (allergies say) is unthinkable.

In the US, we just hate to look funny. Golly, someone might point!

]]> By: Frako https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13397 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:20:52 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13397 Guffawing my sympathy, but covering my mouth.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13396 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:11:30 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13396 In reply to BillBo.

That is the worst. Except that you dodged a slimy bullet.

]]> By: BillBo https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13395 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:08:58 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13395 I was removed from a Virgin flight (SFO > London) after requesting a seat change because the kid who was to be my companion was wheezing and coughing. His parents were seated a safe distance away, but would not swap seats with me.

So yeah, I’m telling everyone too.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13394 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:35:40 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13394 Argh, indeed. Travel safely!

]]> By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/going-viral/#comment-13393 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:49:45 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1915#comment-13393 Argh. Tech Boy and I are abroad at the end of the month. It’s one of the drawbacks of traveling in autumn – or traveling in a sealed metal tube in general. OTHER PEOPLE’S GERMS. I try to avoid the whole Other People thing in my life, full time, but somehow, Tech Boy also has lungs of damp tissue, and this is JUST the type of thing that happens to us.

Thanks for reminding EVERYONE about face masks. Erg.

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