It's Sunday. I go to church on Sundays. And I have a problem. I have a nose - that runs. Believe me, that is a problem, especially when it runs while I am sitting in the choir. I have taken over the counter medications to stop the flow, but they don't seem to help. So I always have a tissue handy.
When I was young, back in the dark ages, I remember noticing that quite often older men, the age of Santa Clause, would have moisture seeping from their noses down to their upper lip. They never seemed to be aware of it, and I always wanted to tell them about it. I never did. And now I'm glad I didn't.
Around the age of way-past-middle-age I began to have a runny nose. It can be embarrasing. When I'm next to someone - anyone, anywhere, I usually look at them and explain that I don't have a cold. They sort of grin. Does that mean they think I'm lying? Are they showing pity? What? I don't know and I can't do anything about it. So I wipe my nose and hope they understand.
This morning, sitting in the choir loft, before the service started, I had a brilliant thought. My nose acts just exactly like one of the faucets in my house. As faucets go, the one in my bathroom is old and it drips. It needs a new washer. I have no idea how to put a new one in. So it keeps dripping.
Now for my idea. I am old, and my nose drips, so it needs a new washer, or at least some apparatus to stop the oozing or torrent, which ever it happens to be at any given moment. I am positive there are others who would welcome an answer to this dilemma also.
Some people wear glasses because they can't see well, others wear hearing aids to help them hear, and there are those who take medications to control all sorts of medical problems. A question I'd like an answer for is, what is this problem called. Is a runny nose a medical problem, a deficiency problem, or possibly a generational problem. Hummm.
I have no idea about how to solve this, but dang, I'm sure glad someone came up with something besides handkerchiefs that you have to wash and iron. That's what my grandmother used.
Do you know how much a case of kleenex costs at Sam's? I'm not talking about one of those packages that holds about ten or twelve boxes. I'm talking about a whole case of those suckers. You got any idea?
