I really dislike the cultural norm of saying something when someone sneezes. I don't wanna hear it, there's never anything new in the what you say just the same few lines, and I don't like feeling like I might be being rude by not saying something to a stranger.
I am actually on the complete opposite end of this and I consider it rude not to say something. It fits into other manners like "please" and "thank you".
It's such an arbitrary relic. I don't know if people ever really believed saying something helped the soul or whatever, but it's so tedious. Or people get competitive and try to be that person, who's polite and then it sets the standard of good manners.
At least if you're gonna acknowledge I sneezed, could you give the person a tissue? At least then you'd be doing something.
And don't even get me started on the chud types who explicitly say 'god bless you' like every sneeze is a battlefield in the culture war
I really dislike the cultural norm of saying something when someone sneezes. I don't wanna hear it, there's never anything new in the what you say just the same few lines, and I don't like feeling like I might be being rude by not saying something to a stranger.
So you just want people's souls to escape out their noses? You're a monster.
I am actually on the complete opposite end of this and I consider it rude not to say something. It fits into other manners like "please" and "thank you".
It's such an arbitrary relic. I don't know if people ever really believed saying something helped the soul or whatever, but it's so tedious. Or people get competitive and try to be that person, who's polite and then it sets the standard of good manners.
At least if you're gonna acknowledge I sneezed, could you give the person a tissue? At least then you'd be doing something.
And don't even get me started on the chud types who explicitly say 'god bless you' like every sneeze is a battlefield in the culture war
In a few months we're going to get into the Christmas Wars again.
I like saying something when I sneeze. Like "gadzoontypes!"