Range of "Bless-you" Obligation

29 Jan 2007

Somebody sneezed today and I wondered what my obligation to say "bless-you" was to them, considering the pysical distance and people between us. With that in mind, and in the spirit of the superb blog "Indexed" I came up with this:

Range of 'Bless-You' Obligation

I'm aware that there could be several more factors in this, but this is a good basis.

Posted by Pedro on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 12:02 PM

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I generally avoid saying, "bless-you" at all times.

At every sneeze, I assume the sneezer has just blown snot all over their hand.

I prefer to provide them the privacy of disposing of that snot in any way they see fit, without my calling attention to their present situation by saying "bless-you."

Strude | January 29, 2007 11:10 PM | Reply

salud... dinero... amor. What do we say on the 4th sneeze?

nalgonisimo | January 30, 2007 12:35 AM | Reply

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