Dream in which I am driving, and lay my head down on the passenger seat next to me. Feels like I am having heartburn. Then I open my eyes, there are thin streams of watery vomit running from my mouth and over the edge of the seat. I am looking up through the windshield at the trees from a kids-eye view. Suddenly, the realization hits me that I am going to plow into something headlong, and die. Wake up in a cold sweat.
Posted by Alan at May 4, 2004 12:49 PMI was riding back home from Sioux City Iowa with my mom one night when I was still in highschool, and we stopped at this gas station where I bought one of those little pizzas. They had a big plastic container of pepper corns with a flip-top lid, only for some reason it didn't have the perforated bit that's supposed to go under the lid and keep all the pepper from pouring out at once. And the pepper had gotten damp or something, so there were clumps of the stuff. I didn't realize it until halfway through the pizza when one of them lodged in my throat. I spent fifteen minutes with the worst burning pain I've ever experienced, eyes and nose running hideously, almost unable to breathe while my mom panicked and almost ran off the road trying to decide whether she should turn around and race me to an emergency room.
I was convinced I was going to stop breathing and die, and the whole thing seemed like a hideously disproportionate response to the minor stupidity of not paying more attention to how much pepper you put on a piece of pizza.
Posted by: Brennen at May 5, 2004 02:02 AMI love the random extensiveness of this comment. Near death experience with pepper corns.
Posted by: alan at May 6, 2004 09:35 AMSomething about the passenger seat death thing just resonated, I guess.
Posted by: Brennen at May 6, 2004 04:12 PM