Things you think about during the opening ceremonies of a potential Pandemic. The money. Wash your hands they say. Don’t touch your eyes they say.
But every minute a cashier is handling a different person’s money. Depositing it into a register with everyone else’s money. Touching everyone’s ID.
Crowds gather to a Costco to gather supplies to stay away from the people they are gathering next to.
My mind wanders towards other scenarios as other nation’s push towards a cashless society as the world loses faith in our dollar. But I keep taking the cash.
I make up jokes. My tip jar fills.
I never get sick. Well sometimes a sniffle.
I go home and pick up Aesop’s Fables. I read a few stories last night.
It’s a dark comedy about how people never change, brought to you by furry animals.
Which animal am I?
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Seattleites are actually relatively insulated from contracting Coronavirus. For most Americans no longer shaking a stranger’s hands is a major adjustment to social behavior.
In the Northwest it’s just called The Seattle Freeze. It is a tradition.
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