Things That Rub Me the Wrong Way: Swapping Spit, Page 1

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Rachel the Great's Things That Rub Me the Wrong Way: Swapping Spit

With the Fur! With!

By Rachel Nabors

Tuna sits beside the title.

PANEL 1

Brenda approaches Rachel who is drinking something.

BRENDA: "Hey, nice drink. Mind if I try?"

PANEL 2

Brenda takes a sip of Rachel's drink while Rachel looks uncomfortable.

BRENDA: "Mmmm, thanks!" ♥

RACHEL: "..."

Brenda wears a shirt that says "Herpes is the new acne!"

PANEL 3

Rachel offers the drink back to Brenda, who looks confused.

RACHEL: "You can keep it."

BRENDA: "What? You don't think I have cooties, do you?"

Brenda's shirt still reads "Herpes is the new"

PANEL 4

Brenda questions Rachel, who looks away.

BRENDA: "How do you know I don't?"

RACHEL: "Huh?"

PANEL 5

Rachel explains while holding up a card with statistics.

RACHEL: "I could have herpes or something."

RACHEL: "80% of the population already has it, even if they don't know it."

BRENDA: "I don't see a cold sore!"

It still amazes me how people don’t think twice about passing a glass or bottle around. The human mouth is a cesspool of bacteria and viruses, not all of which exhibit symptomatically. Even if the contents are alcoholic (which one might assume would kill invaders), it’s still dicey. After all, labs don’t spritz petri dishes with alcohol to sterilize them.

Comments (Archived)

  1. Lauren

    I always had problems with that too! To be honest, I didn’t even like kissing that much either (for similar reasons) until I met my guy.

  2. Jeanne

    I have the same issue! I didn’t share with my kids or anyone else except, on very rare occasions, my husband. I figure I’m already dying of whatever he has so as long as it’s one sip, I’m okay. Double dipping? He’d get the whole dip/guac/whatever and a really icy stare.

  3. J-Kwez

    Tis the amazingness of the hummin immune system, ‘slong as it doesn’t get into your blood you’ll be fine.