snuffle snuffle
toil and truffle
socially unacceptable
to sneeze wheeze or splutter
a challenge for me
with sinuses n stuffy nose
but knowing it’s unacceptable
makes me more susceptible
people give me the evil glare
as I snort it back with clumsy care
oh what to do with a stuffy nose
best I isolate and curl my toes
aroused 
It’s a difficult situation to be in these days. Wonderful poem.
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Aww! Poor you! But your poem made me giggle! 🤭
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lol that was my desired effect 😉
I want to crack up laughing every time I see others paranoid horror 😎
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You naughty girl! 😂❤️
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guilty as charged!
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I can relate. I am a hayfever sufferer.
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This made me chuckle, as a fellow allergy sufferer, I am now a scourge publicly.
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I feel seen!
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Same here. We have been taking our antihistamines before going out – seems like we are the new age lepers… Have to keep saying “I’m not sick – just allergies”
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I know you don’t feel cute when this happens but you sure wrote a cute poem about it 🙂
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Cute little poem, Kate and yes today it has become so difficult to sneeze and cough in public and sometimes these allergies are so powerful.
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I’m sure not being allowed to sneeze makes the desire to do so arise stronger 🙂
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😁😁 smile when you can’t do much
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Ooooo…. it’s me 😀
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Right?? I feel the same way with coughing. I get a dry throat a lot and it makes me want to cough, but I don’t DARE whenever I’m outside or at the store! An excellent poem to sum it all up haha.
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glad it resonate MB, one check out lady genuinely asked how I was. So I equally honestly shared my strong urge to cough right there and then at the top of the queue. She owned that she felt that way all day. That’s when I realised it’s a common urge … a bit like teens told not to do something we have to try it 🙂
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It’s also like when you know you shouldn’t laugh, but you really need to laugh, and you try to hold it in and it almost hurts!! 🙂
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True and no fun when that happens, but your poem expresses it in a fun way!
Hey, maybe a sneeze or snuffle or snort will keep people away from us! 😉
“A sneeze a day, keeps the people away!” 😉 😀
It’s been a bad allergy season for me…since March. UGHS
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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😷 😷 😷
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Charming progression, Kate, all the way through to the end. Truly an allergic lament.
Yes, I have a runny nose, and I do let the occasional cough escape, but it’s not the virus, folks! Just hay fever. Honest
Pre-COVID, sneeze=”Bless you.”
During COVID, sneeze=”You monster!”
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lol you nailed with those last two statements! What a vast turn about … 🙂
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Yes. It can be difficult!
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So true!!!!
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thanks sue!
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Anyone with hayfever and Spring dripping noses…
I’m in the same boat!
So far I’ve been lucky enough not to have sneezed or coughed into my own mask!
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better your mask than spraying it over others!
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Its been raining here and my sensitive nose is also on a look out…like you i am kinda allergic to just anything and it makea sneeze a lot..with the covid, indeed best to stay at home; rather than endure the “your a monster” look from people around when you sneeze .
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so true at the moment, i get the worst hayfever during autumn (i’m in aus) especially when it’s windy and people give me the most horrible death stares if i sneeze!
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yes, it’s totally unacceptable now 🙂
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Way to true at this time. LOVE the photos. It’s stunning.
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lol an internet find … I’m not keen on photographing people, altho some who have asked me to are told that their photo will be shared 🙂
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