I have been sufferign a little with a cold recently. This has caused the usual problems with, and there is no delicate way to put this, snot streaming from my face at regular intervals.
Obvioulsy there is a way to avoid this which is to use tissues. But here the problem starts. Because when I have a cold I am more likely to be a grump than usual. And Man sized tissues are th ecause of my discontent. They are not man sized at all. Admittedly they are considerablty larger than an average tissue, but nowhere near the size of a man. And when your nose is running as much as mine is, that is what you need - a tissue you can just wrap yourself up in.
It is the suggestion that men need a much bigger tissue that I resent. I mean, who is it that considers men have larger noses than women - granted that may be the case in some instances, but I can thing of many big nosed women (Barbara Streisland comes to mind immediately but there are others) and many small nosed men.
It is the whole variety of tissues that bewilders me. Obviously you get what you pay for - some are "Smart price" meaning that you blow a hole in them and end up with a handful of snot. Others you pay (pardon me) through the nose for, just because they have a scent of jojoba or camomile or whatever. Well, if I have a cold I can't smell that, so I begrudge paying extra for it. No, and don't try and sell me triple ply either. I'm happy with single ply if it's the thickness of a bike innertube thanks. To give me three very thin sheets that fail to withstand the hurricane forc of my flu induced sneeze is just silly. And now theres snot all over the TV. And that was over 25 feet away.
Of course I really ought to direct my wrath towards the clever dick Doctors, who can cure everything except the very worse cases of death and the common cold. But at least they admit they can't do it. unlike Kleenex and company who want us to beleive that their tissues make having a cold so much nicer - in fact if they are to be beleived it's worth catching the cold in the first place just to enjoy their product.
Well it's not. And a roll of Andrex makes far more sense.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
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