You are absolutely correct in your observation.

You must stay pretty busy.

Unnecessarily responding to a sneeze and then expecting to be thanked for it isn’t being kind, it’s annoying and pointless at best, and disruptive at worst.

That’s their problem.

Except that there is nothing courteous about it. They haven’t fallen over and broken their leg. It’s just a sneeze. It doesn’t require a response, especially not a response that requires another, gratitudinous response.

Telling people not to sneeze might come off as a bit rude.

No. A response is not necessary, no matter what language you sneeze in.

Get well soon.

No one’s comfort is improved by your sneeze response. You can gracious without being annoying and weird.

Yes. Actually, let’s take it all the way and start blessing people just because we think they look unhealthy, unlucky, ugly, stupid, etc. It would still be pointless, but at least it would be entertaining.

Because it is explicitly religious and even if it doesn’t have any religious meaning anymore to most people, it still normalizes religious nonsense that we’d all be better off without.

I’m in. Been in for as long as I can remember. A sneeze does not require a response. I never bless anyone (what am I, a wizard?) and if blessed by others I do what they should have done to the sneeze—ignore it. If I can see that they are the kind of people anxiously awaiting a response to their unnecessary response, I…

I used to be guilty of this. It was a hard habit to break, and the steps listed in this article are not easy. So now I just self-identify as a woman instead, and —boom—problem solved!

It appears that I have been demoted to grey. Oh, well.

Your beer sucks, but that’s ok because I don’t have to drink it. Cheers!

“Hey, kid. Some people you don’t know did a thing that doesn’t affect you at all.”

Man, you guys have a lot of rules...

The only people I ever see using the self checkout are the people who really ought to leave that job to the professionals.

This was clearly designed (and the article written) by someone who doesn’t make or drink cocktails.

This was clearly designed (and the article written) by someone who doesn’t make or drink cocktails.

How do you commandeer your own pants?