Chain sneezing

[RiversD]

I went to a picnic today. I arrived late and people were generally chilling out on the grass. My friends T and P were lying down chatting. I stood a little behind them to talk with one of the girls, who was trying to fix a kite. T and P are about average height, P has shortish, thick black hair, and a nose that’s very rounded at the tip, like it got halfway to bulbous and decided to stop.

I hadn’t been there long when P suddenly jerked up with a “chff-shew!” It looked a bit like… like when someone tries to do a sit-up, but doesn’t keep their legs on the floor. A foetal position turned 90 degrees to the side, as it were. He rolled from that to a more normal sitting position, pausing halfway to catch another “hh…chfffsh!” in steepled hands.

“Ohh, I think I’ve got a touch of the hay fever…” (he phrases things oddly sometimes)

Then he pitched forwards into both hands again, this time with a double. “chffsh! hh…chffsch!” Our friend H, a few feet away, sneezed almost in unison with him, a louder but more feminine “IESHHEW!” She laughed, and said “It’s catching!”

P laughed too, but cut himself off with another “chffsh!” his sneezes were quiet, but seemed to have more force than the decibel level merited, if you know what I mean.

He stayed sitting, resting his elbows on his knees and holding both hands in a steeple around his nose and mouth. A few breaths later, he sneezed again, “chffsch!”

H followed him: “IESHHI!”

Then a redheaded girl I didn’t know: “ePtSCHH!”

It was like he was setting off chains of sneezing- those were just the guys near enough for me to see who it was, there were a few others dotted around. High pollen day, I guess.

P stayed as he was, breathing through his hands. He didn’t respond when we spoke to him. A couple of times he seemed about to sneeze again, but no. He lowered his hands.

“You okay?” I asked.

“Yeah.” He twisted to look up at me. “I’m just trying to regulate my breathing ‘cause of the hayfever.”

“You need an antihistamine?”

He didn’t have one, so I passed mine over. He said that he hadn’t been expecting it to be a problem, but that:

“I think my error was lying down with my head in the grass. I didn’t think that through.”

The antihistamine must have worked pretty fast, because he didn’t get sneezy again after that. He was all sniffly and rubbing his eyes for a while, but that faded too. Just as well, I’d rather he not be miserable.

[PetalPunk]

NICE! that was beautiful! I loved this obs!

[Snufaleeze]

Gosh, good obs! I always find it weird when there is chain sneezing. P sounds like he has hot sneezes!

[RiversD]

P sounds like he has hot sneezes!

Yeah, they're pretty cute. I find the way he's closed off to the world for a few seconds kinda attractive too. It's like "nope, dealing with this right now, ears, eyes, etc will be back in operation shortly."

[SneezyRae]

I love a good picnic and that sounds like it was a good picnic

[Snufaleeze]

P sounds like he has hot sneezes!

Yeah, they're pretty cute. I find the way he's closed off to the world for a few seconds kinda attractive too. It's like "nope, dealing with this right now, ears, eyes, etc will be back in operation shortly."

Haha! That's cute!

[March Hare]

Oh wow, that's a great observation! That sneeze chain-reaction... amazing. Lovely read!

[A440]

Damn! That must have been fun to watch, especially since everyone else is remarking on the humor of it and you're just taking pleasure in your surfeit of sneezes. And P does sound like he has very cute sneezes, too.

Awesome obs; thanks for sharing!

[ERWcst]

You're a very good friend for not getting too wrapped up in your enjoyment to not offer him some meds.

A very nice sounding picnic! Wish I could spend a bit more time outside in the daytime right about now!!!!

[OhDearBlessYou]

This sounds like a fic! Really nice obs