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Miss Manners suspects that the dentist and hygienist, just like all those people yelling into their phones in public and then ...

Ever since I can remember, I have always responded with a “God bless you,” when I saw someone sneeze. I was told that it was kind and proper to do so without ever understanding why I was being ...

So, if someone sneezed, you wanted God to bless them to help them survive the cold. I do think that "bless you" when you sneeze has become a knee-jerk response and has lost some of its potency.