Warm Sunday dinners with family, late nights drinking with friends, studying with a group in your basement.
All of these are high odds scenes for scoring a blessing after you sneeze. Chances are good that if you explode in a loud bang of spit and phlegm at the dinner table, at least one of your aunts will say “Bless you” and there’s a good shot everyone will chime in. Same when you’re grabbing wings or cramming for biology.
But when you’re on your own it’s a whole different story.
Tapping on a laptop at the coffee shop, washing your hands in the restaurant bathroom, double-stepping up the escalator on your way to work.
These are low odds scenes for netting a blessing. The people around you don’t know you and maybe don’t notice you. But when you sneeze and there’s just silence it’s a bit awkward. I always feel a little lonely in those situations. “Didn’t anyone just hear me sneeze?” I want to ask. But instead I just finish washing my hands and wonder if my released spirit is now floating around the urinals.
This is why there’s something cool about a stranger saying bless you. It’s even better when you say nothing before the free blessing and they say nothing afterwards. Like a friendly smile on passing escalator or an empathetic laugh behind you in line, it’s just a momentary little politeness blip.
AWESOME!
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Oh, I’m all about the Bless You’s. My 2 year old even says it when someone sneezes now. How sweet is that? Out and about and he hears a stranger sneeze and he tells them bless you. That’s my boy!
My two-year old niece does the same thing. It’s the cutest!
SOOO SweeT:)
Being an atheist, I don’t have much use for it usually. But yelling it a stranger when they sneeze can be hilarious if used at the right time. Like passing someone going up the escalator when your going down.
Haha! I’ve done that one, once. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see them turning their head to try and see their mysterious passing blesser, but I just smiled and kept on going…
Nice. I’m usually a little more flamboyant. I’ll try the subtle tactic next time.
I did one of those awesome triple-sneezes at work the other day. A sweet old fellow “Bless-you”ed three times for me! :D
Getting a bless you for each sneeze is awesome! I had a bunch of sneezes in a row and a girl at work blessed me each time too. At home though, you have the 2 sneeze limit before you lose the bless you.
I’m a concise blesser (Initially, I typed lazy blesser, but thought I could surely put an awesomely positive spin on that and lo and behold, I came up with concise…LOL) After the first sneeze, I simply say, “Bless you ditto” and everyone knows that covers the rest.
On the beautiful movie, Beautiful Girls, it is said that Bless You means I love you~
Bless You all:)
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When someone in another car sneezes and their windows are rolled up. You see the sneeze, but don’t hear it. They will not be able to hear the blessing …do we say it any way? Hmmm?
YES! B/C it’s like the butterfly effect…the universe can feel it and somewhere someone needs a blessing…I’d say almost always…am I right fellow awesomer’s:)
AWESOME illustration: Gooey snotty screen!