WIBU to give my colleague a box of tissues as a present, as he seems never to have heard of them?

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This is what I have heard for the last week:

• cough, clearing throat, sniff sniff, cough cough, clearing throat, cough, sniff, sniff, sniff, cough, clearing throat, cough. All day. Every day. For hours. He's managed to blow his nose once

If he doesn't stop soon, or sort this out, I may just lose it.

Why not put a box on your desk (presuming you are in an office) and offer him one every time he sniffs, coughs whatever.

YANBU - This would drive me insane too.

arghhh this is one of my pet hates, I once scared a poor young man on a train by asking him to snop bloody snotting it up and BLOW HIS NOSE, he moved seats... thank goodness as I could not have listened to that for the whole trip.

He's my manager, so it's a delicate issue

Love the suggestion of the box - but he's behind me, so I would be walking over every minute. It could be worse, normally there's another guy as well (also a manager, also not within easy tissue offering reach) who has also never heard of tissues. So, normally I have this in stereo

Sniff as well and offer him one saying "Colds are so annoying aren't they?" then blow your nose and say "Ah that's better. Sniffing all the time is so annoying". With a smile of course.
YANBU btw. It would be justifiable homicide for me.

Don#t put a box of tissues on your desk! You will become "the person with tissues" for everyone in the whole building and will end up spending a small fortune on tissues, and people will be quietly annoyed with you if you ever run out and / or stop doing it!

I know because I was the paracetamol woman.

Maybe I should give them hankerchiefs as presents, with an instructional video? Yes, they are gross, but surely it's preferable then listening to what sounds like plague victims in stereo AND I won't get the curse of being "tissue woman" (I'm already highlighter lady. It is indeed a curse. And people tend not to take too kindly to you labelling everything)

at paracetamol woman.

I am paracetamol, plaster and babywipe woman. I feel your pain.

But, OP, needs must. A cheap box of tissues on each desk will be money well-spent.

OUCH plasters are expensive

I did this to Annoying Colleague who sniffed every 30 seconds for hours on end. I turned to him and said 'oh, you seem to have forgotten your tissues today, would you like one?' in a very sweet tone.

He shouted at me 'I have allergies you know, stop picking on me!' and stormed out of the room in high dudgeon. Which would have been more effective if he hadn't reappeared 3 minutes later to pick up his laptop. then stormed out again. then reappeared 3 minutes later to collect his power supply. and so on, 5 times.

YANBU

But won't you have to put up with the noise of him honking into a tissue?

Just call him