A few hours, a day, perhaps a week or two or even a month, how about six months or heaven forbid, continuously?
These are the questions that need answering in our otherwise busy and hectic lives.
There was a time in the not so distant past, when I worked in the European ski fields and having a runny nose was considered de rigueur, almost a part of your uniform. The standing joke was always ‘April’ whenever anybody asked when your runny nose was going to stop running! (April signified the end of winter in Europe and nearly the end of the ski season and a time when things began warming up).