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... going and doing something like voluntarily getting myself addicted -- and to something as ridiculous as oxygen!
I confess, when I was much younger, I gave in to peer pressure. All the other kids were doing it, so I decided to try it, too... and before I knew it, I was hooked.
Most of the time, it isn't a problem. I'm not REALLY addicted. I'm really more of a "social breather" -- you know, I'll take a breath if the people around me are breathing, that sort of thing.
But occasionally, I'll do something like go hiking in the park when the air quality is rated as "Hazardous to sensitives," and my lungs decide to make their displeasure known. Rather like now, when they're trying to convince me to let them escape during one of my coughing/sneezing fits, or when they're making me wheeze so badly that one of my co-workers stuck his head into my cube, wondering where Darth Vader was....
I wonder if I can sue the Surgeon General's office, for not putting out warnings that addiction to oxygen can be hazardous to your health? ::G::
On the other hand, I have to agree with the fellow who said that oxygen is like sex -- neither one is important until you're not getting any!
I confess, when I was much younger, I gave in to peer pressure. All the other kids were doing it, so I decided to try it, too... and before I knew it, I was hooked.
Most of the time, it isn't a problem. I'm not REALLY addicted. I'm really more of a "social breather" -- you know, I'll take a breath if the people around me are breathing, that sort of thing.
But occasionally, I'll do something like go hiking in the park when the air quality is rated as "Hazardous to sensitives," and my lungs decide to make their displeasure known. Rather like now, when they're trying to convince me to let them escape during one of my coughing/sneezing fits, or when they're making me wheeze so badly that one of my co-workers stuck his head into my cube, wondering where Darth Vader was....
I wonder if I can sue the Surgeon General's office, for not putting out warnings that addiction to oxygen can be hazardous to your health? ::G::
On the other hand, I have to agree with the fellow who said that oxygen is like sex -- neither one is important until you're not getting any!
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I've also discovered that in my declining years I've become addicted to cool weather. Me, who used to pack myself into brigantine and a steel helmet and fight in 90 degree heat. ::sigh::