Unwelcome trip souvenir

I’ve come down with a cold. I was germ phobic even before COVID. Long ago eschewing obligatory handshakes, I avoided viruses for years -long before masks, hot and cold running handsanitizer ops, social distancing and pandemic fears. I wondered if I’d finally developed antibodies for all the 100 or so mutations of the common cold virus. This was a futile hope, an erroneous theory. This cold comes…