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Post Nasal
My nose runs a ridiculous amount of the time.
My nose runs if I am hot, if I am walking fast, or if it is Wednesday.
I don’t know why this is.
I sit down at my desk and my nose is running. So I reach for a Kleenex.
I get in the car to leave the dog park and my nose is running. So I reach in my pocket for a used, very used Kleenex.
I stop at red lights and sometimes, when I think no one is looking, wipe my nose on my sleeve, like I’m 9 years old and getting called in from recess.
A very long time ago, I had a cocaine-snorting boyfriend. His nose didn’t run this much.
No. I’m not allergic to anything. And no, I don’t do cocaine. Only once. At a Grateful Dead concert so many years ago I’m not exactly sure when it was. Where it was, I do remember. I remember that, and also, that nobody cared. I did, though. I thought I was committing the crime of the century. I’m such a law-abider, it isn’t funny.
Back to my nose. Constant sniveling, which is what it amounts to, is so unbecoming. So is wandering around clutching a Kleenex or, as my mother would say, a hanky in my little age-spot-dotted fist.
This, not the state of the world, not the latest travesty or injustice, not the current poll or yesterday’s analysis, this, my friend, is the topic of my blog today, my overly-running nose. Make of it what you will.
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I guess this is when you know you’ve made it as a writer — when you have the confidence to write about nasal mucus!
And thank you for not adding the word drip to the title.
: )
An interesting post, not to be sniffed at… who nose why these little things happen to us? 🙂
Lol!
Hayfever? It is the time of year for it.
Nope 🙂
I ALWAYS have an “emergency” Kleenex in my pocket because of this problem. Years ago when I was a teacher, this issue even had a large effect on what clothes I could wear to work! Had to have pockets!!!
If you take blood pressure medication, that can cause a constantly runny nose.
I don’t. 🙂
Can I join this race as well? Most embarrassing moments lately are when I am at work, leaning over a baby and I can feel the drip just….about….ready…..to…..fall 🙁
I’m in the same predicament. My nose should enter marathons.