The Crush ***Note: Not written by me but- man! what a great thing to see! :-)*** I have had a crush on Matt since the day I met him, almost three years ago. He's tall and thin, with short brown hair, and gorgeous green eyes, and he's one of my good friends. (He doesn't know how I feel about him.) So, as friends, we spend a lot of time together, but I had never seen him sneze, which struck me as kind of funny. I mean, come on, we all do it, so I patiently awaited the day when he would sneeze in my presence. Tonight we were having dinner together, with a couple other mutual friends. He was sitting next to me, on my left, and we were having a pretty animated conversation. He was teasing me (as usual), and I was cracking jokes, when I realized he was silent. I looked over at him, expecting him to have that mischievous "I'm thinking of something really mean to say" look on his face, but he looked almost blank. He had a forkful of food halfway to his mouth, and it looked a little like he was looking at the food, and a little like he was being very serious, or thinking very hard about something. He looked so strange I almost asked him if he was all right, then I saw him quickly move his free hand to his mouth. The way I was looking at him was kind of obvious and awkward, so I felt I had to look away, but out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of his sneeze. Once he actually realized he had to sneeze, the whole thing went pretty quickly. His right hand flew up to his mouth in a fist, and he hunched over in his seat, as if the force was hurting his stomach. He sneezed two dry, quick, strong sneezes in rapid succession. I've never heard anyone sneeze the way he did. He didn't take a breath or pause at all in between the two, it just sounded like, "ah-CHOOah-CHOO!" Both times the emphasis was on the CHOO. It was all over very quickly, and he seemed almost embarassed by the whole situation. (He's very proper and gentlemanly.) When another friend said, "Bless you," he said "Thank you," very quietly, and changed the subject quickly. All said the whole thing probably didn't take more than ten seconds, but I loved it!