ACHOO!

You know, I kind of go both ways about it.

At work, my manager sneezed, and I said bless you, and he didn't respond. I thought that was rude, and he might as well have acknowledged that I'm not just oblivious to his health, and am paying some concern to him, and that that should count for at least a hat tip.

But I thought about it some more, and I was like, well, it kinda wastes everyone's time to say bless you. I'll say it, you'll respond, and you might sneeze again, so what did that achieve? It's like Dopefish says, we have science today, and sneezing just a seasonal thing for most of us, so we don't need to jinx ourselves with that little ceremony of saying "Bless you!" whenever someone's sneezing in the vicinity. Or at least, if you don't want to, you shouldn't feel like you should. As for responding though, still think he was kinda rude.

Jam it back in, in the dark.