Things That Rub Me the Wrong Way: Swapping Spit, Page 2

PANEL 1

Rachel continues explaining to a nervous Brenda.

RACHEL: "You don't have to have a sore to be shedding the virus."

BRENDA: "Eep!"

Brenda's shirt says "Herpes is the new"

PANEL 2

A guy joins the conversation while Rachel lectures.

RACHEL: "By the same coin, I wouldn't drink after you."

RACHEL: "Who knows where your mouth has been."

Rachel's shirt says "Herpes is the new"

PANEL 3

Educational panel showing various germs and viruses floating around.

You can get colds, strep throat, even deadly meningitis from drink sharing and even kissing!

PANEL 4

Rachel muses while eating chips at a party. The guy double-dips.

Maybe that's why swapping spit with someone I'm not dating seems really disgusting to me.

In fact, kissing in general is kinda gross if I think about it too much.

SFX: munch munch

Rachel's shirt says "Herpes is the new"

PANEL 5

Rachel catches the guy double-dipping and is horrified.

RACHEL: "You're double dipping!?"

RACHEL: "That's just as bad!"

The chip bag says "DIP" and "Lay off!" The guy's shirt says "Herpes is the new acne!"

PANEL 6

Rachel storms off while looking disgusted.

RACHEL: "Screw you guys. I'm going home."

RACHEL: "I'm never eating at a party again."

RACHEL: "Freaking health hazard."

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I have always had issues with significant others on this. It’s one thing for me to choose not to share drinks. It’s another when your date shares a glass with someone then kisses you. I find this intolerable. Not many people can relate. Choosing not to share drinks is like spraying L on the kitchen countertops after cooking: plenty of folks don’t care. They never got sick from making a sandwich on the same surface they used to cut salami a day ago, or at least they didn’t realize the connection if they did. To them, you’re the obsessive compulsive clean freak. So maybe when you’re not looking, they’ll keep doing it. You angst that eventually you will both die of food poisoning.

For the record, I stopped drinking after my mother around age thirteen. I am a freak. So there.

Comments (Archived)

  1. Falcon Whitaker

    I don’t think you’re a freak. Other people are just filth-buckets ;P

  2. Lauren

    I agree with above comment. Or below. Wherever my post ends up in relation to Falcon’s post.

  3. Senyah

    I used to not drink after strangers but drink after my fam. Never again!! Unless it’s coca cola. Can’t resist it!

  4. xero

    OOPS wrong! Mythbusters proved that double dipping transfers less contamination than there is active bacteria in dip to start with

  5. Reese76

    Yea I don’t drink after other people touch my drink, in the same manner I always asked for a New Gas Mask drinking tube when i was issued my gas masks from the Supply Depot. yea it pissed them off , but Hey, most likely that thing hasn’t been serviced since the FIRST Gulf War…