Does stray snot matter? (And a Boggart) The most eloquent post to date.

THAT magical moment as whilst your biggest boss man is talking to you he glances, for the slimmest, slightest moment to your nose... and you suddenly realise, hot faced, that you must have a stray bogey** (or "dried nasal muscus"* to be correct) waving at him from your nostril.

He leaves you, and you check.

Yes.

There it is...hanging free.

Proud.

Green (probably).

Will I be forever etched into his memory as the girl with the hanging bogey?

Probably.

But the imperative issue here is: does it even matter?  



*Dried nasal mucus, pieces of which are colloquially known as bogeys^[1] in British English and boogers^[2] in American English, is commonly found in the nose and is a result of drying of the normally viscous colloidal mucus (or snot).^[3]




** In looking into the bogey I found this interesting, slightly related piece of information. I particularly enjoy the part about clammy hands on faces and ear pulling. We thank Wikipedia. 

"In English folklore, a boggart (or bogart) is a household fairy which causes things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. Always malevolent, the boggart will follow its family wherever they flee. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with nor persuaded, but would become uncontrollable and destructive.

It is said that the boggart crawls into people's beds at night and puts a clammy hand on their faces. Sometimes he strips the bedsheets off them. Sometimes a boggart will also pull on a person's ears. Hanging a horseshoe on the door of a house is said to keep a boggart away."

                                                                         Fungus, my childhood hero...I have a signed copy!

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