Sneezing three or more times in a row

Sometimes sneezes hit you and hit you hard.

Unless you’re rolling around in a pile of ragweed or sleeping on a pillow filled with pepper and cat hair, it usually starts completely out of nowhere. You feel that tickle deep in your nose. Just a tiny little quiver way, way up there, near where your eyeball connects to your brain. You squint a bit, pull your hand to your mouth, and then BOOOOM! Your eyes squeeze tightly, your face crunches together, and it screams down your face at the speed of sneeze, exploding out of your mouth in an ugly climax of wetness in all directions.

Despite the look of it, sneezing can feel pretty great. Not only does repeated sneezing give you a weird, spacey head rush, but it can also be quite refreshing. Sinuses get cleaned out, nose hairs get a windy blowdown, and you end up firing whatever was irritating you out of your nasal cavity like a cannon, sending it flying across the room in a spastic I Must Get This Out Of Me overreaction.

Now, although sneezes are usually a surprise, there are times when you know they’re in there and you just want them to leave. What’s worse than that frustratingly stubborn sneeze? I’m talking about the kind that pauses all conversation, leaving your friends stuck grimacing and watching you writhe in an agitated Potentially Sneezing Soon State, trying to force the sneeze locked in your nose in or out.

It’s awkward.

That’s why it feels great to let that booming sneeze out, preferably in a punctuated rat a tat tat sequence of three or more sneezes for the full effect. Tiny mousesqueak sneezes, booming dogbark sneezes, whatever your style, that’s cool, that’s cool. Pretty soon your body is buzzing, your sinuses are sparkling, and your head pipes are all vacuumed clean.

AWESOME!