sorryaboutmynose

So I think I'm catching a cold 🙈. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a blocked nose. I felt a bit worried when it didn't go away within the first couple of minutes, but I was well enough to get up and drive into town for an appointment I had booked today. Then, literally a couple of minutes after leaving my house, I felt this incredibly urgent tickle in my nose and I knew I was gonna sneeze. Normally I try to avoid sneezing while driving because I hate the idea of someone seeing me, but it came on so quickly I didn't even have time to stifle it. I lifted my elbow to my face and half-caught a desperate, powerful double, that nearly knocked my glasses off, then immediately had to do it again for a surprisingly messy single. Since then I've been snuffling constantly - no tissues yet, but I'm not gonna have a choice if I have to sneeze like that again. I don't feel too bad atm, thankfully, so I'm hoping this is as bad as it gets!

Sure, wet, messy sneezes are incredible, but I rarely see anyone talking about *windy* sneezes. I love the idea of the force of someone's sneeze fluttering the tissue they've tightly pinched to their nose, or seeing the hair around their face leap from the sudden breeze their nose just expelled, falling down slightly ruffled 🫢🤤. Or, the ultimate evolution, someone physically *bouncing* from the force of a sneeze so powerful it needed their whole body to expel it 😵‍💫.

Hi everyone! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has interracted with or just appreciated my posts this year - it's so lovely being part of such a welcoming community and being able to actually share this very unique experience with other people!

Currently dreaming about a person slowly coming down with a nasty cold. Listening to their usual, polite little stifles get gradually wetter and less controllable before they inevitably pitch forward into an uncontrollable, unexpectedly messy explosion. Their poor fingers, thinking they were just there to contain another harmless (although quite powerful) stifle, finding themselves covered in spray. The desperate plucking of tissues out of a box and the first helpless, incredibly needed noseblow that completely fills them, confirming to them and everyone else in the room, that they have, indeed, caught a cold.

I don't know what my nose thinks it's doing, but for like a week now I've been having multiple sneezing fits every day. I have no idea what I'm allergic to, but whatever it is it's happening in December now for some reason? Does anyone else know what the hell is going on?

All I need is someone to hold my twitchy, snuffly nose and catch my big messy sneezes for me 🥺