Jan 02, 2010 00:46
Anyone who's had the privilege to know one of his own parents has realized, probably at a rather unfortunate moment, that he has some similarity to his father or mother. I just had this experience about a similarity that would normally be fairly innocuous, but came at a time when I'm suffering from a particularly miserable case of the sniffles.
I sneeze like my mother. My sneezes are loud, seemingly abrupt, and uncontrollable. My mother's sneezes have always annoyed me, and now I'm annoyed at my own.