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

[speckledhen]

Seems I'm out of touch with the new recommendations, but I can promise you that speckledhen won't be following them. I carry Kleenex or paper napkins with me all the time, in my purse and car, plus have hand sanitizer in each vehicle. I have been known to run out the back door to sneeze on occasion while cooking, though, LOL.

 

[RabbitMage]

I do it if I'm away from Kleenex when I sneeze. Which I usually am

So I guess I should tell people not to touch the inside of my elbow.

 

[Royd]

What if you, suddenly and unexpectedly, have to blow your nose? Personally, I prefer the cowboy handkerchief, but there seems to be some controversy over it. What say you?

 

[speckledhen]

cowboy handkerchief

Please elaborate. I'm not up on all the vernacular, it seems.

So I guess I should tell people not to touch the inside of my elbow.

Well, don't hug anyone or touch any inanimate object with your sleeve or carry something in your arms that someone else may touch, either.​

 

[Royd]

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Please elaborate. I'm not up on all the vernacular, it seems.

It's where you close one nostril with a thumb or finger, and clear the sinus with a strong exhale.

So I guess I should tell people not to touch the inside of my elbow.

Well, don't hug anyone or touch any inanimate object with your sleeve or carry something in your arms that someone else may touch, either.​

 

[redhen]

I agree with you, Cyn...
At least if you sneeze into a tissue in your hand you can WASH your hands or use the Purell stuff right away.
But if you sneeze on your "clothes" those germs stay there all day to be spread several times over ...
Plus.. WHO wants to walk around with boogers on their sleeve all day long?

 

[highcountrychickens]

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hee hee... I do carry around bottles of Purel - a pump bottle in my car (DH too!) a little tiny bottle in most coat pockets and travel sized bottles in my purse - we had four confirmed cases of H1N1 in our small town in one month last year, one was a friend of ours who was taken down to Salt Lake City and put into intensive care for more than 4 months because of it - she'll never be the same again. I don't mind being weird about that... also, we also don't seem to shake hands a lot - I think it's some sort of hip mountain culture thing, but I'm not cool enough to really know the root of it. Anyway - so far (knock on wood) it has worked - for three really awful flu seasons.

I dunno, Speckledhen - I agree with you on many levels, especially with basic manners and propriety that are already at such a terrible discount these days - and the snot on the sleeve made me laugh out loud - as did the image of running to the back door with a sneeze coming on but honestly, gross as it is, I do see the logic. Schools are petri dishes as it is... and when a kid four desks back has a sneeze coming on, he's not going to make it to the teacher's desk in time to grab a kleenex - so I'd rather a sleeve that needs laundering than the kid sharing pencils, touching doorknobs, playing 'guess who?" with a hand full of pathogens if the sneezer is indeed sick.

(the cowboy handkerchief also made me laugh - I grew up ski racing where that seemed to be a coveted skill among the guys and coaches..

 

[User66184]

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I have had that happen!

only a million times,

And i have had expriance of somone sneezing on me and i got really sick, like EXTREAMLY SICK!

Yes, Sneezing into your sleeve is very nasty, i always carry tissue in my pockets/purse/ect....I'f i see somone about to sneeze i run up to them and hand them tissue, I dont like others getting sick,


I agree with you Sneezing into your sleeve is EXTREMLY GROSS!


-Nikky

 

[chickenofthesea]

"Low-class"??? Seriously? Thats just silly.

 

[speckledhen]

For lack of a better term, yes, I meant that. We were brought up to behave ourselves in a certain way in polite society. Sneezing all over your clothes on purpose seems a bit "base" to me and always will. That's what I meant by the term "low class". Maybe I should have said crass instead.