My Greatest COVID Fear…

Stephen H Stein
1 min readApr 14, 2020

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My greatest fear when this is over is to be in a restaurant drinking from a glass of water and it going down the wrong way and having to cough and everyone looking over at me while I try to explain that the water went down the wrong way but I can’t because I keep coughing and there are droplets EVERYWHERE and now people are screaming and running out the door and the Covid response team shows up only it’s not the Covid response team, it’s the Covid vigilante response team where they simply stone anyone for coughing and I CAN’T STOP COUGHING so I run out the back through the kitchen but they’re in the back, too, so I quickly turn around and bang into the side of a dumpster which settles the water in my throat and I can finally shout, ‘IT WAS THE WATER! IT WAS THE WATER! IT JUST WENT DOWN THE WRONG WAY! FALSE ALARM! I’M OK! EVERYTHING IS OK!,’ but the dude nearest me in the Hello Kitty face mask shakes his head and the rocks start flying.

Am I the only one?

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Stephen H Stein
Stephen H Stein

Written by Stephen H Stein

Have a nice day unless you have other plans.

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