Ah-Choo

How do you sneeze? Is it a let-it-all-out, spine-breaking sneeze? Or one of those delicate ah-choos? Do people say "bless you" or "gesundheit?" Incidentally, the word "gesundheit" means "health" in German. Do you ever wonder why it's a German word? I mean, why in German? Sneezing is one of the very few universal things and the two most popular niceties that people say are in English (now considered the universal language) and German (would have been the universal language had Hitler succeeded).

It must be a dark day in the creative department of my world to be writing about sneezing, but I really have nothing else to say...

But since I've started this sneezing, let's continue along that vein. How do I sneeze? I let it all out (not the spray of saliva). I actually cover my nose and mouth. This is actually dangerous (not the covering one's nose and mouth, but the let-it-all-out sneeze), especially for those who have back problems - like me (I have scoliosis). My therapist (for my back, not my emotions) says that I should try gently sneezing as I could throw out my back and aggravate my condition (and by aggravate, I think he meant I could die). Death by sneezing... how humiliating. It's probably like drowning in soup - high unlikely, but possible.