Day 163: Remember the Time... I Am NOT a Walking STD

"Hey Jeff? Can you give me herpes?" I asked my colleague at work today.

"You mean right now?" he replied.

"Yeah. It's not the end of the workday yet," I said.

"OK - here you go. You now have herpes," he said. "And why don't I give you syphilis and a staph infection as well," he said, handing me GIANT microbes plush toys representing the diseases, which I needed for the video I was working on for work. 

"Thanks! I know I can always count on you," I told him, hurriedly brushing past the science editors that undoubtedly overheard the conversation.

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"What? Erika has crabs?" Erin asked Heather and I as she was walking back to her cube near ours at work loud enough for the colleagues passing by our area to hear.

"No! I was just saying Erika has been not happy lately, and has the crabbies," Heather said.

"Geez, this is how rumors get started," I said, shaking my head. "Soon everyone in this office is going to think I'm a walking STD.