Day 74

When you sneeze in class, everybody stops what they're doing to say something, no matter how important of a point the teacher is trying to make. The thing is, the more times you sneeze, the less responsive the class becomes. I've drawn up the following chart in order to illustrate:



As you can see, after the second sneeze, it is unlikely that you'll garner so much as a single "God Bless You." Not one "Gezundeit," "Nastrovia," or even an "Al-hamdu-Lillah." In fact, if you continue to sneeze thrice or more times, you eventually earn yourself negative goodwill, as people will start to find you annoying and perhaps even take some delight in the fact that you have the flu. (Which you probably do - honestly, who sneezes thrice? More honestly, who uses the word thrice? But I digress.)

Take a look at the chart again. You may notice that the chart begins to level off toward the end. This is because, if you keep sneezing, the annoyance factor becomes outweighed by your classmates' concern that you might in fact be dying. Plus, at a certain point, it all becomes white noise...