{"id":2209,"date":"2018-11-27T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:58:24","slug":"the-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/the-common-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"The common cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

by Dave Williams<\/p>\n

I have a lousy cold. It’s a terrible cold.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You ever notice that people who have a cold almost always beef it up a bit with paralyzing adjectives that make it sound like an exceptionally bad cold, not just a “common” cold?<\/p>\n

This cold of mine is the worst cold in the history of colds!<\/p>\n

Thirty years ago when I was still young, eternal and bullet proof I just ignored any illness that didn’t force me into a hospital. A cold? Flu? Please. It will go away no matter what I do or don’t do. That was my attitude then and it was proven correct time and again.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of my 1980s evenings in a Northern California honky tonk wearing boots and hat and sucking on beer bottles, smoking Marlboros, chatting up the ladies and laughing with my friends.<\/p>\n

Don’t go getting all judgmental on me, it was a different time and socially acceptable. To say nothing of hella fun.<\/p>\n

In those days I learned that if I caught a wicked cold I could stay home, get plenty of rest, drink lots of fluids and I would gradually recover within a week or two. On the other hand, if I went out and smoked, drank, danced and laughed as usual it would take seven to 14 days for me to regain normal health, such as it was.<\/p>\n

I don’t live like that anymore, I’m too old, and I don’t recommend it because it’s not socially acceptable these days. But I’ll tell you one thing for sure:<\/p>\n

Dancing and drinking and smoking cigarettes with a cold made the time pass much more quickly than shivering on the couch alone and feeling sorry for myself.<\/p>\n

We didn’t have Facebook or Snap Chat or Twitter in those days. Whining about a cold had to be done in person and your real life friends helped you get over yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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