I was sitting next to Cleo, my mother-in-law, in church on Sunday. With her head bowed, she dabbed her nose with a tissue and sniffled. I whispered to her, “Are you okay?”
“Oh, I’m just all choked up,” she said as she fanned her face with her hand.
I imagined that she was overcome with emotion to be surrounded by her family, to have her grandson sitting on her lap feeding her goldfish.
So I nodded at her and patted her arm in a knowing and loving gesture. I understood.
Then she leaned over and said, “Allergies. I’ve got a head full of snot.”
Allergies and love — apparently both come wrapped in snot.
Hee. Hee. What a long hiatus. Or, is a hiatus inherently longish? The allergies are in high gear over here as well.
LOL! I’ve seen many a southern matron fan herself in that manner….I can just picture it. Even clogged up with snot, they are very genteel.
I just sneezed after reading this. The pollen: it is killing me.
There are few words which capture the very essence of the substance they name…snot is one of those words. Great post!
it’s going on around here too…
blessings,
karla
Aunt Cleos are the best there is!
Cute!
If you do have allergies (like me) it makes a terrific excuse when you are caught teary eyed over something that everyone else didn’t find so sentimental.
Spring is upon the land here in Florida and I am using Kleenex as if it were free. I will go home to Ohio in six more weeks, just in time to welcome the pollen a second time. Like you dear m-i-l, life isnot all it appears.
Toooo funny! A few times, I’ve had someone totally misunderstand what I’ve said and it amazes me how different people can take things and make them different from what I meant. I wonder how much more often it happens and we never even realize it?
Some days, I truly believe that the snot is the only thing keeping my whole head from caving in.
I can’t even think of anything to say to that one… pretty funny!!