I was at Starbucks today waiting for a client. I happend to turn to look out the window and the guy who bought a coffee after me was about to sit down at an outside table.
Before he could sit, however, he erupted in the wettest and most violent sneeze I have ever seen. His back arched and his right left hand worked to stabilize the hot coffee inside it as each facial orifice expanded and emptied itself onto the pavement. Perhaps it was because the shower of phlegm and saliva was backlit (the sun was setting behind him) that it was so noticeable, like a fast food commercial in which a well-lit head of lettuce, or tomato jumps through a stream of running water.
This is life, apparently, in the 21st century. Absurd.
