an imaginary e-mail to the coughing guy in the adjacent cube

cough

Dear coughing dude in the adjacent cube,

You cough every five minutes. I could set my clock to the sounds of your hacking. Not content with a small, dainty throat-clearing, you expectorate loudly, with noisy, boar-like grunts. You do this on the phone, mid-sentence. The sounds of your whooping carry over to the hallway on the other side of our floor.

I have taken to wearing soundproof headphones at work to block out your noise. They don’t. I hear your phlegmy hacking over the guitar feedback and high pitched howling of Black Sabbath’s live double album. I have phoned Ozzy, and he wants a word with you.

Do you have tuberculosis? An iron lung? Are you suffering from some unfortunate, debilitating respiratory ailment?

If so, I hear there are excellent sanitoria in the Swiss Alps.

If not, then please, please, for the love of all that is decent, STFU.

Your long-suffering neighbor,

Shelly

Graphic from The Main Point by Michael Main

About shelly

Exploring the vast culinary jungles of the San Francisco Bay Area, and my own kitchen. Khaki shorts and safari hat optional.
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