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Top Speed Boogie
Date Added: September 21st, 2009
Many years ago I use to teach piano lessons in a small town of 1,800 people. My home was small, so I had to rent the civic center for the annual recital. I also knew that grandparents would want to see their grandkids’ names in the paper. So, one morning, about a month before the recital, I went to the print shop and got awards, went to the local paper and gave the article for the paper, went to the city hall to rent the civic center, and so on.
When I pulled into my driveway at the end of my morning of errands, I saw myself in the rear view mirror and noticed a large boogie in my right nostril.
“Oh no!,” I thought, ” Everyone saw that!”
I felt so humiliated! I could not postpone getting that out of my nose! I looked in the back seat of the van and noticed a big unused roll of toilet paper from a camping trip. In an effort to ease my shame, I tried to humor myself in the mirror. As I rolled toilet paper around my hand, getting ready for the big snort into the wad of tissue, I chatted out loud to the boogie looking in the mirror, telling him he would soon be propelled at top speed. Just then, sitting in my car, I perceived someone looking at me. It was the Schwans man! He was standing at the end of my van, watching me talk to the boogie in my nose!! It was an awkward moment. For the first time in his life, I think he was glad when I rolled down the window and yelled,”I don’t need anything today!”-Annie, Portage, MI.