Sneeze into your SLEEVE??!! Are you KIDDING me?!

[speckledhen]

A sneeze from dust or cigarette smoke is different than when you have a cold/flu. You know you are sick! How many don't know they have a cold or flu? Someone said not everyone has a tissue, but why not? If you're sick, make a point to have them on you, period. Gawd, for ladies, it'd be better to sneeze into your dang purse--at least you won't be rubbing your sleeves all over folks and getting them sick. It's really not brain surgery. And I will never, ever, not ever believe it's good to sneeze all over your clothing, sorry. To me, it's completely uncivilized. And how about just stay home when you're ill? Yeah, yeah, have to work, sure, I know. If they're going to have a campaign, they need to start telling folks to carry a sneeze cloth, if they think a wad of Kleenex isn't enough--don't use one tissue, use several at once, if you don't trust one. Then it won't be all over your clothing. Guess I best stay up on my mountain and away from folks. At least if you sneeze on your computer monitor, you won't make me sick.

 

[Chicken Chaperone]

I see a lot of people, women particularly, who lift the neckline of their shirt up and aim their sneeze
down towards their chest. ugh!

Having snot in my cleavage?!? Not tempting.

 

[Carrie Lynn]

I work with preschoolers and can't stand it when they sneeze big wet ones into their sleeves.
They then go on to wipe their noses off all over the sleeve. I can see boogies all up and down those sleeves.
I've seen children do this wearing short sleeves/sleeveless shirts, yuck, you can see the shine of boogies on their bare arms

It's not long when, during play, others are touching their boogie clothes as they touch their arms, barf!
I've been discouraged from asking children to carry tissue in their pockets to help them develop the habit of using them

Now, I guess I understand an unexpected sneeze going into the sleeve, but not when they have colds/allergies and repeated sneezing.
What ever happened to covering the sneeze and washing your hands afterwards?

I once read that Napoleon, un-nerved by his soldiers wiping their noses on their sleeves, had rows of buttons added to sleeves to deter the practice.

 

[jojo54]

I saw a video spoof on TV a few years ago about not sneezing into your elbow but sneezing into the back of someone else's knee!

It was quite funny - people in an office on the hands and knees in a circle sneezing on someone else.

 

[Carrie Lynn]

 

[silkiechicken]

I think it's supposed to be sneeze into your elbow, but sleeve sounds more jingly. Beats sneezing into the air, that's for sure. That's what I have to do when I'm wearing gloves at work, can't de glove fast enough sometimes. Whats disgusting is when someone sneezes into their hand at a meeting when the tissue box is in the middle of the table and then you end up shaking hands with them at the reception... you know they didn't go to the washroom to wash those boggy hands.

 

[halo]

Cyn, I dont think you understand. You arent supposed to sneeze into your shirt, you're supposed to sneeze into the person standing next to you. Like next time you have to sneeze, just lean over and sneeze on hubby's shirt.

Sneeze on your own shirt? blech...no wonder you thought that was gross.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I thought the same thing!!! Gross and trashy.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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A sneeze from dust/smoke does not mean you aren't carrying a potential virus or bacteria... You can be an asymptomatic carrier. Your purse? how often do you wash it? Then you pull out your wallet and set it on the counter at the grocery store? No thanks..

 

[PineappleMama]

I pull my shirt up and totally cover my nose. Figure 1 I'm not exploding germs in a cloud upon anyone nearby and 2 I'm not doing it into my hands that later I'll be touching food, money, the kids, doorknobs, etc with either.

RATHER have warning enough to get to the tissues, but in a pinch, this works for me.