The Swine Flu

OMG! The funniest thing just happened at work. I was just coming back from lunch and I had eaten some spaghetti with very hot crushed red-peppers and spicy italian sauce.

So when I came back to the office I was trying to quench my thirst with Dr. Pepper at the same time that I was taking a payment from one of our customers.

(I am laughing out loud as I'm typing this)

She has been our customer for 2 years and we have a good relationship. We joke about work and all kinds of stuff.

Anyway, as soon as she handed me the money to make her payment I started coughing from the hot peppers I'd eaten earlier.

But I just took the money and put it down. Then I took a drink of soda and looked her dead in the eye and said, "Excuse me, I have the SWINE FLU." The whole time I kept a serious but sad look on my face.

OMG! Her face froze in total shock.

She looked like she wanted to punch me but didn't want to get more contact with me.

Then My Boss started laughing and I started laughing and I told her I was just kidding.

She was so obviously relieved that I started laughing again. Then she finally started laughing.

There is nothing like the roller-coaster lurch to the stomach that someone gets from an unexpected scare. It dumps a gallon of adrenaline into your system that has to be relieved somehow. Laughing in this case.

Daaaaammm. My stomach hurts!