I have had a bad cough for some time now. I reckon all in all I've had it for nearly 3 weeks. I gave in today and agreed to go and see the company doctor. He had a quick listen to my lungs and said that although he couldn't find much trace of anything it was unusual that I had the cough for so long and wrote me a prescription for some anti-biotic pills.
I dropped into the pharmacy on the way home and there was a load of people all there waiting for prescriptions to be fulfilled, if that is indeed what the pharmacist does with one's prescription.
Anyway there was clearly a bunch of bad stuff going around for there to be 4 or 5 people all there handing in prescriptions at the same time. I drifted over to the right of the pharmacy to check out the multi-vitamins. At this stage I spotted another customer drift to the left to check out the dental products, while another drifted to the back left to look at hair care products.
Then in some kind of beautiful unison the dental-browsing guy drifted towards me, I instantly drifted to the back-left of the shop and the former-haircare-browser moved to occupy the vacant area next to the dental products.
It was a kind of spontaeous human osmosis, as we all drifted silently to maintain the sanctity of each others' personal space.
Isn't this an amazing phenomenon. We don't have to say it but we all know when we need to move on because someone else wants to occupy the little bit of the solar system we currently occupy.
I think there must be a limbic communication going on, a kind-of "any chance we could swap?" communication between our brains outside of our conscious thought.
I got the pills and went home, taking two with water twice daily at regular intervals.
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