Nasal News

Yes, I have more nasal news. This one is quite funny.

You know those boogers that get stuck to your nose hairs? The kind that embed themselves in between all those hair follicles? You can blow and blow and blow but you will never dislodge that nasty nuisance from your nostril. There is only one way to remove it: you have to go mining. You finally get that booger wedged under your fingernail and it rips out all the hairs that it has grown in between. Yeah, thats fun isnt it?

I just so happened to have one of those same boogers the other day. I was driving in the NAPA car on my way back from a delivery. While accelerating onto I-184 I decided that it was time for it to come out. So I did it. I put my finger in my nose and wedged that little booger under my fingernail and ripped it out. I flipped it out the window and a teenager in a large blue truck caught my eye as that booger flew from my finger.

This boy looked at me with his eyes wide open. The he pointed at me with his boogerless finger and said, "I saw that!" I was quite embarrassed as I saw his lips move but the noise was stopped by the window that separated us. What was I to do? This teenager had caught me in a pick. And to my surprise he then lifted another finger. He pulled out his thumb and with a smile on his face hoisted that thumb up into the air. At this point I realized that there was no reason to feel embarrassed or ashamed. I looked back at him with a smile and my thumb saluted back. Just at this moment a car passed by in the lane between us. My exit was coming up and I knew I was leaving my new thumbs up friend. So I put my finger back into my nose and turned to look at him. The car passed us both and as I exited the freeway I gave him a blank stare with my finger up my nose. He was quite amused and I saw him slap his knee and laugh hysterically as the truck he was riding in continued on its way.

I laughed all the way back to the NAPA store. I'm sure people have seen me try to remove such nasty things from my nose before but none had ever taken the time to let me know that they had seen me do it. Being caught in a pick like that and having a laugh about it really made my day.