Everyone at my office is in various stages of the cold, flu, and some mysterious illness that caused so many headaches we thought there might be a radon leak in the building. I have a theory about how the illnesses rip through the office so quickly: the community treat table. People make cookies and cakes, or sometimes buy a box of donut holes and leave them on the table. Everyone grabs one as they walk past, and days later you can hear a chorus of coughs rising above the cubicle walls. In spite of this advance theory, I can't help myself to the treats. If I see them being put out, I'll run over and grab them right away to try to limit my exposure, but then after I have that one, I'm like...well, I already had one, I may as well have more. If someone in my office graphed illness on one axis and self-control on the other, I think they'd find a strong correlation.
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