Standing in line to order coffee and she starts to feel a tickle in her nose. There are two people already lined up in front of her. The frosty cold from the door nips at her exposed face as more people enter behind her.
She tries to hold back the sneeze and hopes it'll go away, but her eyes start watering from the intensity and now she's sniffling as her nose suddenly decided to become a waterspout. One person in front of her now.
If she can just hold back the sneeze until after she orders, then she can dart into the bathroom quickly where nobody will be looking at her. She wipes her nose on her sleeve, the mucus holding onto the wool knitting.
She has just about willed the sneeze to dissipate when it's finally her turn to order. She takes one last big sniff to hold back the cascade of snot, and smiles at the cashier."
"Can I order a latte with a non-dairy milk? I'm aller-allergi--HEEETSCHEUUHHH!"
With horror, she realizes her sneeze sprayed all over, escaping before she could cover, leaving pronounced droplets on the cafe counter and catapulting her snot onto the shocked and disgusted barista's apron.
"Oh my god, I'm so sor--EEHHHTSCHUHH! I'm sorry! HITTTSCHEEEW! Oh god..."
Her sneezes just kept coming, drenching the counter and barista further. She had her hand up a few inches away from her face as an attempt at covering but it did little good.
"Could I p--PTSCHUUH! Please get a napkin too? Ighh'GSHHTSCHUEEW!"
She looked behind her and realized that now everybody in line was staring at her in pity and disgust, giving her lots of space for her to sniffle desperately and scramble to clean up the snot hanging from both nostrils with her already soaked sleeves.
Another barista wordlessly tossed her a wad of paper towels, and started disinfecting all the surfaces while the old barista went on break to clean herself up.
Her nose gurgled as she blew loads of snot into the soft paper towels until they were falling apart.
"Sorry um, could you throw this out for me?" she passed the full paper towels to the barista. "And could I still get my latte please?"