A coughing symphony

There was a coughing symphony today at work. We all have the same cold, which mostly manifests itself in a single cough once in a while, so you'd hear it up and down the hall from different directions. At times, there was an interesting back and forth dynamic

cough
   
                          sneeze

cough
cough

                          sneeze
                          cough

                                         cough


cough

                           cough

                                         sneeze

cough
cough

I found it amusing, if tiring. Somehow, not being able to see all the participants made it funnier. When I was teaching on Tuesday, it was just gross to watch all the children coughing. But being part of a coughing symphony in the office today was a bonding experience. Like we were communicating our discomfort to one another across the hallway, and commiserating as our bodies, together, wrote a symphony of sickness.