Announcement: new method for sneezing
 

I'm sure that this directive has come down from on high somewhere, because the children have taken it up first, therefore they are being systematically taught it. 2009 should be marked as the year this method has "gone viral".

For those of you without kids: when you are about to sneeze or cough, you raise your whole arm in front of your face, and exhale your deadly sputum aerosol into the crook of your elbow.

All my nieces do that. My mom said a little girl at the clinic did that too. Kids know (must be learning it at school), but adults haven't caught on yet, that I can see. :)

can't we just sneeze into our man purse?

They taught that at the kids' preschool. You can spot paople who spend time in schools a mile off by how they sneeze and cough.

Seriously? Y'all are old. I remember being taught this back when I was in junior high. That was 1993, ya fogeys.

When I was in middle school they hadn't developed sneezing techniques yet. We had to all march down to the school nurse's office once a week to have mucous vacuum-pumped out of our heads.

When I was a kid, there was no such thing as "middle school." There was elementary, high, and get yer ass out of the house and find a job.

:D

when i WAS A KID, WE COULDNT AFFORD NOSES.

Pansies. When I was a kid, we played "snot and slide" at recess. Sure, the germs came, we got sick, some of us died...but we liked it!

I sneeze onto my shoulder. Some food-handling restaurant class at some point taught me that. Now that I think of it...It probably looks stupid.

Science World says more germs are spread by shaking hands than by kissing.

I'm encouraging the use of the terrorist fist bump a la Howie Mandel.

:lol:

An ex thought the method was to sneeze on me. This is not a great method as he found out. I mean who sneeze's on you and tries to wipe their nose on the hood of your jacket anyway? :greenface

PS
In public.

WTF have you been doing? Still sneezing into your hand, so you can smear it all over the next available doorknob?