Holy Exhale

I was at a conference over the weekend and sat through a very crowded seminar. Everyone sat in an unusually close circle. The guy next to me was facing directly at me so I felt like he was staring at me the entire time. That I will deal with, but something happened that still makes my stomach churn. In one moment of terrible timing I took a deep lung filling breath while at the exact time that this guy exhaled an eyebrow curling breath. All of his breath went right into my nose and filled my chest. It felt as if I put my mouth on an exhaust pipe. His breath was awful too, like he just had a bigmac and a cup coffee. Now this is bad, but in two hours it happened five times! Every time I coughed uncontrollably and secretly vomitted in my mouth, which as my only relief, even that tasted better.