Can we get a ruling on this one?
Can we put our heads and hearts (which is the hardest 12 inches to travel) together for a second?
How many sneezes are we supposed to say “God bless you” for? Is there a limit, or are we supposed to just be bottomless with those things?
I only ask because they moved my cube at work, and I’m sitting in a much sneezier group of people. (Don’t worry they’re not very impressed that I have a blog and don’t read it. They’ll never see this.)
Are you the type of “God bless you” person who doles them out individually like hard candies? Each sneeze, no matter the time interval upon which they came, gets one?
Sneeze! God bless you!
Sneeze! God bless you!
Sneeze! God bless you!
Or do you deliver your “God bless you’s” in bulk, like a certain grocery store? You wait until you can tell a multi-sneeze event is over and then just do one God bless you that covers all of them? That’s not a bad approach. It’s efficient. I’m pretty busy. I can’t be constantly interrupting my work with your refusal to take Claritin-D (Who am I kidding, I don’t take Claritin-D either. What am I made of money? I take knock offs, like Walgreen’s version “Wal-tin-D,” or the even less expensive “Shell Gas Station-Tin-D.”)
Is this a 7 times 70 thing, like forgiveness? We just have to go and go and go?
Or can I throw one out at the beginning of the day that covers me for the next 8 hours?
Would that be weird if I walked in each workday and said, “Hey, everyone who is in my cube’s radius, ‘God bless you!’ All day! Done and done!”
What do you think?
What’s your approach to the “God bless you” dilemma?
