I promise the title is only half click-bait. 8)
I was recently reading up on medical ventilators and how they can use both invasive and non-invasive mechanisms to function. In a geeky moment of macabre fascination, I wondered what it would actually feel like to have a breathing tube down your neck. Last time I had that done I was thankfully anesthetized in the OR, and woke up without even a sore throat.
A few years ago I was at my local movie theater eating some M&Ms I had smuggled in to the show. Like every one of us once in a while, I accidentally took a breath right as I was popping another candy into my mouth, and of course it went straight down my windpipe and into my lung. I felt it land somewhere in my chest about the same level as my nipples. It didn't really hurt, but it caused an uncomfortable dry sensation similar to getting a big whiff of sawdust, while at the same time trying to swallow a large vitamin pill without any water. I suddenly realized what had happened and froze in a panic.
Fortunately, my body's survival instincts kicked in and I coughed, causing the sugary morsel to shoot back out my mouth and project like a golf ball straight into the movie screen, a good 40 feet away. Momentarily impressed, I quickly remembered where I was and slumped back into my seat and hoped that nobody noticed. I doubt anyone did, since every time I go to the movies, the place is practically empty.
To this day, every time I sit in front of a projector screen, I can't help but think of the time I turned my local cinema 14 into my own personal golfing range.
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