TWSS

due to recent events in my life, not least the reading of a most exceptional book, i've stopped saying "god bless you" when people sneeze. however, people still say it to me, and after 30 years of cultural reinforcement of the acknowledgement of sneezing, i feel a painful and awkward void when my companions sneeze and i greet their bodily function with only silence.

hops suggested i say "gezeundtheit" but I really don't like germans, so that's out. "salud" has the misfortune of making sense and not being funny. so i've gone with the absurdist benediction of "that's what she said!" this irritated a sneezing hops on the drive home yesterday, and by this morning i'd forgotten all about it, until i sneezed while i was preparing breakfast, and heard a shout from hops office upstairs: "THATS WHAT SHE SAID"

i haven't laughed so hard in the morning in quite a long time (TWSS).