Boogers can be so distracting

If any of you saw a girl in her car yesterday with her finger stuck way up her nose, it was me. I wasn't digging for pleasure either; my finger actually got stuck on this giant crusty allergy booger that was fused to the inside of my nose like week old Rubber Cement. Instead of using normal methods, i.e. scrap and pull motion, I had to position my finger so that it was slightly above the booger and could then push it out, gently and slowly.

Just as I'm prying this massive object from my nose, a gardening truck drives by, looks at me, and JUDGES ME for partaking in necessary action. In my haste to be rid of the driver's scathing look, I forcefully extracted my finger from my nose and inadvertently removed my "problem".

Or did I? I couldn't really tell because my nose didn't feel clear, yet I was able to breathe.

Wondering whether I had jammed it further up my nose, or repositioned it somehow was actually far more distracting than the booger itself. A block later I noticed my booger dried out and pathetic-looking, on my pants. Nonchalantly I flicked it away and resumed normal driving.

The moral of this story is if you get caught picking, don't react to the judgmental eyes of others. They too have removed foreign objects from blocked airways and should not be so hasty in criticizing.