Pet peeve

[gardendoor]

I realize this is ridiculously oversensitive of me, but I'm having the mother of all bad weeks, so oversensitive is about the only dial setting right now. Can we not use the term "mouthbreather"? Please? The fact that I was born with a nose too small to be of much practical use really has no bearing on my intelligence, and I hate walking around feeling like people see me as a slack-jawed yokel because I part my lips in my quest for oxygen if I'm doing anything more strenuous than sitting.

Bad, bad week. Sorry.