HOLY CRAP
I have today off, so I decided to go for a walk. My usual walking route, since moving here, has been along Coyote Creek Trail.
It's a nice, warm, sunny day, and we've been getting plenty of rain. The trail was lined with tall stands of tasseled grass on one side, and bright, colorful wildflowers on the other.
Now, Your Obedient Serpent has had allergies all his life. That's four-plus decades, folks.
Usually, though, the cause and effect are subtle, even if the symptoms are anything but. If I get the sniffles or sneezes or random patches of irritated skin, if I get the Sinus Attacks of DOOM, there's usually a delay between exposure and symptom, and there's usually some difficulty trying to pin down the trigger.
Not this time, boy!
As soon as I passed the first patch of grass, I sniffled and coughed.
By the time I realized that this was hitting now now now, I was at a point in the trail loop where turning around would have taken me just as long to get home as plugging on. By this point, I was sniffling, sneezing, coughing, my eyes were watering, and I was even having some trouble breathing.
And as soon as I got out of that chunk of the trail, I instantly cleared up. Oh, I was still a little sniffly, I still had to cough a few times, but the worst of it was gone.
Real allergies don't work like that! Cartoon allergies work like that!
I've had reactions to obvious, visible irritants, like smoke, but to the naked eye, that Allergy Hellstorm was completely invisible. Not even a bit of haze. I've never experience anything like that before-not even yesterday, walking along the exact same part of the trail.
I'd say it was like getting tear gassed, but tear gas doesn't affect me.
It's a nice, warm, sunny day, and we've been getting plenty of rain. The trail was lined with tall stands of tasseled grass on one side, and bright, colorful wildflowers on the other.
Now, Your Obedient Serpent has had allergies all his life. That's four-plus decades, folks.
Usually, though, the cause and effect are subtle, even if the symptoms are anything but. If I get the sniffles or sneezes or random patches of irritated skin, if I get the Sinus Attacks of DOOM, there's usually a delay between exposure and symptom, and there's usually some difficulty trying to pin down the trigger.
Not this time, boy!
As soon as I passed the first patch of grass, I sniffled and coughed.
By the time I realized that this was hitting now now now, I was at a point in the trail loop where turning around would have taken me just as long to get home as plugging on. By this point, I was sniffling, sneezing, coughing, my eyes were watering, and I was even having some trouble breathing.
And as soon as I got out of that chunk of the trail, I instantly cleared up. Oh, I was still a little sniffly, I still had to cough a few times, but the worst of it was gone.
Real allergies don't work like that! Cartoon allergies work like that!
I've had reactions to obvious, visible irritants, like smoke, but to the naked eye, that Allergy Hellstorm was completely invisible. Not even a bit of haze. I've never experience anything like that before-not even yesterday, walking along the exact same part of the trail.
I'd say it was like getting tear gassed, but tear gas doesn't affect me.