Altoids of Enlightenment +3

Many of you know that I have an Altoids problem. Whenever a new altoids flavor comes out, I must try it. (And the tins are SO useful, but that's a story for another day) So, imagine my delight when I saw th new flavor of altoids in my local miscellaneous shop: Enlightenment flavored Altoids.

I immediately bought a tin, and tried them as I drove home. WOAH was that a mistake. These things should have a warning label saying "WARNING do not operate heavy machinery" (On further investigation, they do have such a label, but it's in blue on black, and in some strange dialect of Aboriginal Australian for which there exists no written script)

Anyway, the shock of such immediate and tasty enlightenment almost blacked me out, and I swerved the car. Fortunately, there was no one there except for a bicycle chained to a lamppost, which I barely missed. I then sat in my car, just pondering the delicious enlightenment until the symphony I had been listening to on the radio finished, which broke me out of my reverie.

Unfortunately, the near accident caused me to knock over the tin, and spill all of the altoids out the window (to be immediately eaten by what I can only assume to be very very wise crows). When I went back to the miscellaneous shop, the girl behind the counter looked at me as thought I was completely insane. So I bought some Mango Sours Altoids instead. Not nearly as enlightened, but still tasty!

Interesting observation

So, I'm still on voice rest because of my soar throat. I do a little mime, a little writing, and a whole lot of exaggerated facial expressions, and head bobbing. The interesting thing is that I'm constantly aware of times when I feel the need to say "uhuh" or "aaah" or other "I'm listening" noises. I feel a little weird when this happens.

Has anyone else had this experience?