I remember once as a kid someone fake-punched me in the nose. This older kid hauled off with his fist and pulled the punch just shy of ruining some great and prominent Italian cartilage in the making. Somehow I stood there without moving, but every nerve in the tip of my nose reacted in a way it had never done before, flaring up in a melee of electrical impulses, readying to deal with a rush of pain that never came, making my nose tingle and twitch.