My alarm went off at 7:45 this morning, as it usually does, and I slowly got up and took a shower and got dressed, as I usually do. I exited my building and began my 15 minute walk to work when I started sneezing like a madman. For the life of me I had no idea why I was sneezing so much. Was it allergies? Possibly, but usually I'm well over that by this time of year. Was someone repeatedly slapping my nose? No, I don't think so, although perhaps I missed that.
The day wore on and I kept sneezing. I was baffled by this disturbing turn of events. Finally, while walking to get a drink of water I scratched my left torso/flank/lower-spleen area and felt a hard, rectangular object under my shirt. It turned out to be one of those tags that they now attach to clothing! I was about to cut it off when I noticed the writing...
"Remove Before Wearing or Washing to Prevent Uncontrollable Sneezing"I immediately cut off the tag and within minutes my sneezing problem went away. All I can say is that I am a lucky man: if it weren't for the itch in the lower spleen area, I might still be sneezing and suffering now.
THE END
THE END
4 comments:
Wow! Weird!
To be completely honest, I made the whole thing up (including what's written on the tag). I never was sneezing like a madman and the tag only said "remove before washing or wearing." I used MS Paint to add that extra part. I hope you and all my other readers can still trust me. :/
I think you could have made this better by first explaining the mystery of your sneezing, and then waiting until the next day to do a new post and "solve" the mystery. This would create a "cliff hanger" of sorts, as they say, and would virtually guarantee that many first-time readers would come back and check your web-blog compulsively until the secret was revealed.
Matt - I like your idea. Too bad I can't go back in time. I could delete this post and then do it in two sections as per your suggestion, but I'm sure all 3 of my readers have already seen it, anyway.
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