The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

19 March 2006

Puttin' off the spritz

Inasmuch as everybody at the shop has gone through two or three bouts of What's Going Around recently, this sounds like a sensible approach:

When you have to sneeze, don't sneeze into your hand. Turn your head and sneeze into your arm. It's what they teach doctors to do.

Elbow, shoulder, it doesn't matter. Just not your hand, which you then continue to use to touch everything around you. I know that everyone thinks that they don't spray that much when they sneeze, but you do. You totally do. Or maybe you don't, but you should err on the side of caution.

I totally do. One day I was unfortunately enough to have both a case of the sneezies and a mild nosebleed, and the nearest wall wound up looking like a set for CSI: Des Moines.

Posted at 9:29 AM to General Disinterest


That's what I do. Better snot in your sleeve than all over your fingers.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at 9:43 AM on 19 March 2006

One day I was unfortunately enough to have both a case of the sneezies and a mild nosebleed, and the nearest wall wound up looking like a set for CSI: Des Moines.

So, it would have been better to look as though someone had shot you through the biceps?

Posted by: McGehee at 10:42 AM on 19 March 2006

It might have been easier to explain.

Posted by: CGHill at 11:58 AM on 19 March 2006