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Getting a crouton stuck in my windpipe. Your body can and will try to take over when life is on the line. Fortunately, I could still breathe a little and I had to wait for saliva to dissolve it. A scary 15 mins or so of small breathes.
When I was a small child, I put a piece of Cheerios cereal in each nostril, to "see if I could breath through the tiny holes". They got stuck, I panicked, then fell asleep. When I woke up, they were gone. I always assumed they dissolved.
Your body can and will try to take over when life is on the line
What do you mean by that? Were you doing involuntary actions?
Oh yeah, lungs were giving it their all to clear and they didn't care if they did a little damage to succeed. Losing some control over your body is a weird sensation. It's like someone snatching your game controller away, beating a boss, and then tossing it back into your hands.
Like a long reflex action? Like when you touch a hot stove, you'll automatically jerk out of the way