Curing the Uncommon Man-Cold by Salter J.L

Author:Salter, J.L. [Salter, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dingbat Publishing
Published: 2013-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Kevin Haywood, Jason’s buddy at GCEC, stopped in at one of the upscale hotels along Nashville’s Fourth Avenue. The Nashvillage had the best lounge, with evening happy hour at 6:30 when a convention was using the facility. The hotel provided free drinks for its customers, and Kevin pretended to be staying there. It wasn’t really all that artful, however, since the evening manager didn’t care who drank up that huge facility’s sizeable booze budget.

Bill, an also-divorced acquaintance, saw Kevin and they struck up a conversation while Bill waited for a female business traveler to return from the powder room. “You ever read blogs?” Bill kept his eye on the restroom door.

“Not much, unless somebody e-mails me a link to something particular. Why?”

“The other day at work, a buddy was talking about some guy somewhere who’s really sick with something. So he goes to his girlfriend’s apartment to recover. But instead of taking care of him, the girlfriend — and her best friend — conspire to make that guy’s life a living hell. You wouldn’t believe all the stuff they do to him.”

“What stuff?” Kevin didn’t really care. At work, he’d heard a snippet about a similar blog.

“Well, I don’t remember everything, but they’re starving him, for one. And they keep sending over cleaners and other kinds of technicians to interrupt his recovery. Plus, get this — they turn off the A/C during the day!”

“And the stupid schmuck puts up with all that? He deserves whatever they dish out.” Kevin was distracted as another attractive female entered the drinking space. Happy hour during conventions was absolutely the best time to cruise.

“I don’t know.” Nearly a head taller than most of the men present, Bill scanned the room to see if anyone looked better than the woman still in the restroom. “At first I thought the same thing. But the more I read on that blog, the more I felt sorry for him, kinda. I mean, he’s as stupid as a headless hen, but give the guy a break — he’s sick.”

“What’s he got?”

“Well, it sounds like a regular ordinary flu. But the blog keeps calling it a man-cold… whatever that is. You ever hear of a man-cold?”

Kevin shook his head. “I’ve heard that mumps is different for grown men. But I thought viruses were pretty much gender neutral… you know, men and women get the same basic germs. Maybe this is new, like that weird version of swine flu or something.”

“Not sure. Whatever it is, the girl — and her devious friend — are running this sap through the grinder. They might actually be trying to kill him.”

“So where is this? Out in California somewhere?”

“Blog doesn’t say.” Bill rose up on his toes to look over the milling crowd toward the restroom. That made him temporarily about seven feet tall. “What the heck is keeping her?” He focused again on Kevin’s question. “Could be anywhere. Could be right here in middle Tennessee for all I know. I guess this new man-cold virus could hit just about any ole guy.

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