Can I get a sympathy cough up in here?

I hate coughing. I hate the sounds, the actions everything. Lately my abs have been sore because coughing has become a regular pass time of mine. But, it's not like a consistent cough, a few light throat clearing sounds and I'm done. No. Instead I get this intense tickle in my throat, like I'm being choked. I try not to cough, but the more I fight it the more annoying and unbearable that feeling is. My eye on which ever side i'm feeling the tickle begins to turn red and water. So I cough and cough and cough and cough. You've had this happen before I'm sure. I have too, but never on such a regular basis.

Now, the places this happens is never useful. I'm never minding my own business at home, or in the car or somewhere where I'm out of earshot of anyone. No no. Embarrasing myself is farrr more fun. Like Sunday, I'm with my cousins at church in Dallas. Dallas. Now, I didn't think about needing church clothes for my overnight stay. I was thinking it was Saturday the next day, not sunday. All I have with me is jeans, not really Dallas appropriate for church. So I'm in my jeans, looking all unchurch like when I begin to cough. I can't stop it. When does this happen? Oh, during prayer. The longest prayer of my life. I couldn't even get a sympathy cough from these people. Usually you cough and it spreads like a yawn, everyone else remembers suddenly that they too need to cough. This phenomena does not happen during prayer.

Also, it does not happen during class. No no, you usually just gross out the person in front of you. Like today, I kept coughing until I decided it wasn't stopping and I should walk out. This girl in front of me kept turning around and looking at me. I figured she was some sort of germ phobic and she was cursing me to hell for sending my bodily germs flying in her direction at high rates of speed. I don't blame her. Plus it's loud and annoying. Coughing is equally as ugly to me in most cases as throwing up. Perhaps I just associate the two, or maybe its because you can often hear the flem flying around in peoples throat. I do not need to know that about anyones body. Anyway, I leave class and come back and said girl turns around and says "are you ok?" So sweet. Perhaps she just kept looking back to make sure I wasn't choking on my own tounge. That was nice of her.