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Mild Epiphanies & Random Revelations #9

Morning Mask-Up Nearly Killed Me-Jokes…sort of.

Arpad Nagy
1 min readJan 26, 2022
Photo by Akram Huseyn on Unsplash

I have CoVid. It’s great. Now I see what all the hubbub is about. What a party!

This morning I heard my wife rushing around getting ready to go to work. I asked her if she had made her lunch, to which she replied that she slept in and would just grab some rice cakes and a banana.

That’s not going to do. So I got up from bed to make her lunch and assist her departure. Before my feet hit the carpet, my Missus chirped, “Mask! Mask, please!”

Epiphany.

Morning breath for breakfast is bad.

When I made it to the kitchen with a mask securely over my mouth and nose, I began dodging my deathly morning breath. I made her sandwich with watering eyes and swallowing coughs.
Do not recommend.

Revelation

This is day 4 of CoVid. Each new day brings a new symptom. Today’s joyous ailment is throbbing eyeballs. It’s a nice addition to the body chills/sweats, general stabbing body pain, and brain cloud.

CoVid truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Arpad Nagy
Arpad Nagy

Written by Arpad Nagy

Shortlisted for 2024 Northwind Writing Award in NF/Fiction. New owner of First Line Fiction. Editor @ The Memoirist, AoE, Book Cafe, Short Place, Kitchen Tales.

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