Choking on Air

Do you ever have those times when you just choke randomly? No, I don't mean on words, I mean actual, coughing choking, on nothing but air. Like, you just take a breath, and suddenly, you can't breathe and you're coughing and people are staring? No?

Well it happens to me. All the time.

Today, for instance, I was just sitting there innocently in French class, feeling slightly nauseated because the floor kept vibrating where I was sitting (long story), wondering how many minutes were left in class and generally spacing out, when I choked. Not over the many impossible syllables of French. I choked on absolutely nothing. So I'm coughing these big, hacking coughs, sounding like a dying... something, I don't even know how to describe it, and after a few seconds, my classmates start noticing. Now, I'm sitting in the corner, in the very last row, so it was pretty awkward when half the class started looking over at me. It was worse when the teacher stopped in the middle of the lesson and asked what the hell was wrong with me. Only, like, you know, in politer words and with a French accent. So I kind of cough out that I'm fine, I'm just sitting there choking, and the class smirks a bit before going back to the lesson, while I'm despereately trying to stop coughing. And to stop blushing.

So, really, people have to be warned about this. Most people go through their entire lives without realizing how dangerous, and embarrassing, air can be. This if wrong, and I firmly believe education is the key to overcoming such a serious hazard to our learning, and though that, our futures!

<3 Helen