Ever have one of those moments when you feel a coughing fit coming on so you pop a cough drop? But your vagus nerve is like, “Fuck you, Menthol-Lyptus. I’m doubling down on the scheduled coughing, starting right… now!”
And then you cough so hard your back muscles hurt and your throat aches and your eyes water yet the entire time you’re trying to breathe through the fit, your brain is laser-focused on keeping the cough drop inside your mouth and not ejecting it like a cannonball.
What’s worse, even if you succeed in keeping the drop from going airborne, the coughing fit still leaves you breathless with the stale taste of ineffective cherry medicine and regret on your tongue.
Yeah, not a fan.
