{"id":34143,"date":"2026-03-10T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=34143"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:56:39","slug":"contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"CONTAGIOUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nI\u2019ve probably been to eviction court 100 times in Lakewood, Ohio. In the old days I actually stood in a real courtroom with a judge with a gavel. But nowadays I meet up in a conference room with a magistrate. The guy knows me. Believe me. We sometimes exchange pleasantries post-hearing. But not usually. The guy is in a hurry. The other day I faced off with a deadbeat tenant — nothing unusual here — except he announced to the magistrate and me, \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t even be here. I have a contagious disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

That got our attention. He said he couldn\u2019t go to work because of the disease. The magistrate shut him down and gave him the eviction notice — the red tag — right then.<\/p>\n

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The magistrate<\/p><\/div>\n

Post-adjournment, the tenant explained he was \u201cskin-to-skin contagious.\u201d So you have to touch him to get what he had. That made us all feel better.<\/p>\n

—
\nAnd please read my essay \u201cRolling the Dice\u201d<\/a> in the latest <\/em>Forum magazine. Author Jim Sollisch says it\u2019s one of my better outings.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I\u2019ve probably been to eviction court 100 times in Lakewood, Ohio. In the old days I actually stood in a real courtroom with a judge with a gavel. But nowadays I meet up in a conference room with a magistrate. The guy knows me. Believe me. We sometimes exchange pleasantries post-hearing. But not usually. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34143"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34160,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34143\/revisions\/34160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}