If you have ever experienced springtime in St. Louis you have probably at some point gone outside and saw the pollen in the air. Maybe you have gone out to your car and seen the yellowish haze of pollen resting atop it. It gets rough here for pollen— even folks from other parts of the Midwest that I have met have commented on it. The pollen counts on Thursday and Friday were pretty high.
Perhaps this is just me, but I suspect this might be a common experience. When this time of year rolls around and my nose gets all stuffy, I think about all the times my nose wasn’t stuffy and how I took that for granted — how I took for granted that I could just breathe in through my nose and air would flow through without restriction.