Evidence that pandemics cause all kinds of communication issues
Yesterday I visited the dentist. Let me tell you about some of the communication issues I met. Communication #1. The email from the dentist. Amongst the other 347 instructions regarding my consultation with the dentist about a broken tooth was this: 'Please do not use our customer toilets while you are here.' I understand why this has to be so in the current Covid situation. But my bladder is made from cheap market-stall cling film these days, not its previous reinforced rubber. I thought back to Adam and Eve and to God saying, 'Don't eat from one particular tree,' and remembered how things turned out. I knew that as soon as I stepped over the threshold of the dentists' surgery, my bladder would want to do the one thing that was forbidden. My only option was, therefore, to visit the public conveniences in the town square once I climbed off the bus. Communication #2 The sign in the public conveniences I washed my hands in the public conveniences using the au...