Awesome allergies
It’s not often that someone will sing the praises of allergies. If you suffer from one, you’ll know how miserable they can make you. Whether a sip of milk makes you fart or the touch of latex gloves brings you out in an impressively colourful rash, it’s not something that people often wish that they suffered from. I’m a hay fever sufferer myself, and while everyone else is enjoying the approach of summer and planning days out in the warm weather, I’m dosing myself up with antihistamines and studiously avoiding anything green.
My hay fever has, in recent years, extended to dust and some animal hair. This is where the awesome part comes in. My friend recently got herself a hideous cat from some animal shelter – very altruistic, but I’m sure the shelter were more than happy to see the back of this furry devil. She scratches, bites, hisses and is generally a bitch to everyone, apart from my friend who won’t have a word said against her cute little kitty, and insists that we all give the furball a hello cuddle when we go round to visit. She even insisted she had to bring the damn thing round to my house when she came over for dinner as “Sooty couldn’t be alone for so long”.
How sad, then, that I can go nowhere near adorable little Sooty without sneezing violently for several minutes, followed by a severe swelling around the eyes? OK, I may have exaggerated my symptoms (and changed the name of the cat to protect my friend’s feelings!) but she was trying to invite Sooty to a human dinner party for heaven’s sake? I think in that situation, a few overt-the-top sniffs and sneezes are forgivable. So, thanks goodness for animal allergies and their ability to keep pets away from the dinner table!
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