'C' is for Choking

this morning, after breakfast, i choked on a 500mg vitamin C tablet.

who chokes on vitamin tablets at this age?! that would have been such a tragic way to die.

POLICE REPORT

MURDERED... by a white, generic, ascorbic acid tablet.
500 milligrams. about a third of an inch in diameter.
available in all leading drugstores.

it was a race between cutting out my air until i passed out and waiting for the thing to melt till it slid down my throat. ok, so i exaggerate. i was still able to breathe. in fact, i did manage to walk to the fridge and fetch myself another pitcher of water. i had the intention of flooding down the freaking tablet. although, in retrospect, that would have simply drowned me instead.

so, in fits of very harsh coughing--and thanks to my dad's furious encouragement--the culprit eventually got expelled.

you know, in hindsight, this really wasn't totally unexpected. for the past two months of every single day, i would gag at that C. i mean, i had no problems with the multivitamins. nor did i have trouble gulping down the E.

it's like its been planning this moment all along... (scary music in the background)