I know I’m being unreasonable ref sneezing!

[Imknackeredzzz]

Yes I know before you tell me I’m being utterly ridiculous!

Started a new job and love it, but something really minor rankles me and I need to stop being so bloody ridiculous.

It’s a team of around 5 and no one says ‘bless you’ Hardly ever after a sneeze. I guess I’ve been brought up to always say it and think it’s bad manners not to. I’m the only one that says it in the office and can’t seem to stop myself and I’m finding myself unreasonably annoyed by this!

Don’t know what’s wrong with me! It’s a totally stupid thing to be annoyed by- is anyone else like this?! Or have I lost the plot

When I was studying in America, I sneezed and literally everyone in the room said bless you.

It was bloody embarrassing! Lol

It’s not really rude and not really relevant anymore as far as I’m aware.
People used to say it as they thought it was the sign of the plague didn’t they?

But when you bless someone and they keep doing more sneezes, do you bless each one? At what point do you give up or wait til they’re finished and do one big blessing?

Sometimes I bless people, other times I’m on the phone/mid sentence/distracted by what I’m doing and I don’t. I don’t get offended if people bless me or if they don’t.

I’m very glad we don’t bless coughs though, I’ve had a chronic one for months (I’ve been thoroughly checked out medically) and the cough is annoying enough for me and those around me without constant blessings as well!

YABU

Reminds me of primary school where when you sneeze and someone says bless you, if you then say thank you, a fairy dies unless you clap to bring it back to life. But if you don't say thank you after someone blesses you, you feel rude but you can't kill a fairy.... Ffs. Just let me get on with work.

I hate bless you. If you have multiple sneezes and keep getting bless you-d it’s so cringeworthy

I was always taught it was bad luck to say thank you after a 'bless you' due to a sneeze. I hate that this is ingrained in my normally logical head. Makes me look a rude twat! I would love it if people just didn't say bless you to me in the first place!

The bless you fandango gets on my nerves!
We both know I’m not about to cark it just because I sneezed and even if I was, you saying “bless you” is not going to make the tiniest bit of difference.
I say “excuse me” when I sneeze, anything else after that from anyone else is unnecessary.

Pahahaha I thought this was going to be about someone with an annoying sneeze and I was going to come on with an anecdote about my husbands utterly obnoxious sneeze

I'll get my coat ...

Hmmm I knew I was being ridiculous but I am quite surprised how many people don’t say it/ are annoyed by ut

OP you’re insane. But also, Why are people saying excuse me when they sneeze?? It’s not like you’ve any control over it. If I said excuse me for every sneeze in hay fever season I’d never say anything else.

Bonkers

I was raised to say it, but as an adult i stopped because i though it was weird, as above. However, if I'm in public and a stranger says it, reaching across the otherwise silent divide of bus seats, for example, then i think it's a nice gesture, if still an odd one. It's interesting to me that the gesture, rooted in a frightening time, took such a stronghold that 100's of years later we still do it.

YA a little bit U, but not as U as all these people who find it offensive or annoying. It’s a harmless social nicety with interesting historical origins. (And I’m a atheist.)

The reason for saying bless you, is that, sneezing is said to be an opportunity for the devil to get in. Because it is involuntary, and kind of occupies your whole body and mind, I think.
It doesn't matter whether you are religious or not. I don't think anyone seriously believes that the devil is hanging around just waiting for someone to sneeze in order to possess them (and going by this thread, they clearly don't because they don't even know that it is a thing)
So, saying 'bless you', is just an expression, it might express concern, because you have a cold, or it might be said ironically, or sometimes its just said as a reflex action. In any case, nothing to get worked up about
My dad always said 'Gesundheit' when we sneezed. He's not German. Wonder what that means?

I say it! I like it, I find it quirky.. I was only just thinking recently isn’t it funny that we say it. I do find it polite and I don’t find it hard to say thank you when someone says it to me... I’m also not religious and neither is my family, I don’t even think about it in a religious sense.

I get really irritated by people who say "bless you" when I sneeze. Partly because I know I never sneeze only once and they will feel they have to say something on the second, third, etc. sneeze and it will get ridiculous.

We all say it at work but, as we're a company which consists entirely of 6 'ladies of a certain age', I think it's more of a short prayer that you've not wet yourself than anything else

I thought it was going to be about not covering nose or something . I say bless you to children , never adults.

@HoobleDooble there's literally no need for that.

Strange mixture of ancient religion & superstition. Fairies?! Hooble thats hilarious

I find it annoying as I never sneeze just once so you have to think of something else to say each time or just grin inanely. I honestly would not notice or care if no one said it. I say it occasionally if someone I'm in direct conversation with sneezes, but if it's someone just in the vicinity who I'm not actively talking to then they remain unblessed.

I sneeze a lot and would rather people didn't say it. It says nothing, it's just awkward.