Ah, fall. The time for pumpkin spice lattes, cooler weather, football games, bonfires, and the overall smell of an Iowa fall.
What? You can't enjoy fall smells because you're too stuffed up? Join the rest of us.
Let us, fellow allergy sufferers, proudly unite with our box(es) of Kleenex in our hands! Here are some things that we know all too well:
1. Having to empty out your trash can every other day.
Mount Snot-filled Kleenex won't move itself.
2. Annoying everyone around you with your sniffles.
"I'm apologizing in advance if my sniffles annoy you."
3. Being stuffed up to the point you feel like "AND THIS IS HOW I DIE."
I can't breathe. God, are you foreshadowing my death?
4. Walking around campus with a packet of Kleenexes.
DON'T JUDGE ME. I can't help that my body hates fall.
5. Constantly sneezing during the class where the professor hates you.
Looks like my final will definitely not be curved after this.
6. Constantly getting asked what you're allergic to.
"What are you even allergic to?" You, if you don't quit asking me.
7. Your throat being dryer and more scratchy than the Sahara Desert.
"Cherry-flavored?" You mean, the taste of Hell in liquid form.
8. Allergies or actually sick: you can't really tell.
If you search your symptoms on WedMD: 3 days to live.
9. Getting those dreaded sinus headaches...
"MOOOOM, PLEASE MAKE MY HEAD BETTER."
10. When you run out of good tissues and you have to start using paper towels.
We don't even mention the tissues without lotion.
11. Getting asked why you are crying.
It's my allergies. And college. And everything.
12. Looking at yourself in the mirror.
Not any amount of makeup in the world could help me.
Leslie Knope sums it up:
