I know this is an art blog so I will make this non art post short.  Yesterday Chris and I went to IHOP for breakfast. (Love the Swedish crepes with lingenberries).  We are sitting talking and drinking coffee.  They seat an elderly man in a booth right next to ours.  I mean he was on the other side of our booth, but the booths are short so you can see the people and they are really right next to you. The guy starts hacking away.  I look over and he isn’t covering his mouth!  He is just coughing and it is disgusting and gross and I imagine all of the germs flying in my direction as his whole head moves this way and that.  Ok, I do have compassion for my fellow human being, really I do.  What kind of person goes out to eat when they are really sick and then this person makes horrible hacking noises(use your imagination here it was really bad), and to top it off this same person doesn’t even bother to cover their mouth?!  I started talking to Chris about how I haven’t gotten sick sick yet this year.  Last year when we had so many visitors I was sick every time because they all brought some terrible plague with them.  My immune system is compromised.  When I get sick, it lasts three times longer than most healthy people.  Fast forward to IHOP yesterday and we get our order.  I am trying to enjoy my wonderful crepes(we don’t go out very often) and here this guy is doing a pretty good job of ruining the whole experience for me.  I’m sure I was making all kinds of faces every time this guys started up.  Then my hero Chris looks over at him and says, ” Sir, could you please cover your mouth?”  Dang was I proud of him!  So often we just sit and try to pretend the offending person isn’t there.  We are so annoyed, but say nothing to them.  But not Chris, no he tells him to cover his mouth and he did it in such a nice way too.  I may add here that Chris had a face to face view of this guy.  I didn’t, I had to turn my head to see him.  But to my delight this guy  actually did start to cover his mouth.  Maybe it will be a one time thing for him, but maybe, just maybe Chris has educated another human being on the fine art of covering your mouth when you cough.  My hero.