10 Good Things About Having a Cold

1 - It gives you a slightly less rubbish excuse for making rubbish excuses.
2 - It makes you appreciate the time when you were at 100% health.
3 - It makes you appreciate the 98% health you still have.
4 - It provides a good reason to drink orange juice.
5 - It gives you sympathy for the permanently ill.
6 - It increase your will to act in a healthful manner.
7 - You might experience one of those great, deep, restoring slumbers.
8 - It provides a good excuse to do the organizing and cleaning you were putting off, because when you are sick doing cognitively demanding work usually fails.
9 - Not having to see, or be one of, 'those' expensive gym people.
10 - Soup always taste better when you are sick.