May 07, 2006 23:14
Earlier, while I was watching Family Guy, a bit of tea went down my throat wrong. It triggered my gag reflex, but gagging would mean spitting tea all over the rug, so I held it in, sending the cough/gag back down into my diaphragm. Once there it started causing some serious trouble, kicking around my chest for about fifteen seconds as I stood to try to spit the tea out into the sink. I kept stifling coughs, which makes them exponentially worse, as my brother watched and said something about how the joke "wasn't that funny." Apparently I looked like I was in hysterics. Finally I managed to cough all over the sink, and slowly come down from the insane fit of choking on nothing. This was not my finest moment.