There Is Nothing More Annoying Than The Way Other People Sneeze

Or cough, or chew, or…

Bev Potter
3 min readSep 29, 2023
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I’m sick. Not deathly ill, just “under the weather” as they say.

And now that I think about it, what does that even mean? Weather comes from the sky, so isn’t everybody “under the weather” all the time? (No, I’m not going to Google it.)

Anyway, an attorney here at the office refuses to keep a box of tissues on his desk. Instead, every time he needs to blow his nose, he comes out into the waiting room, grabs a tissue, and then blows his nose next to my sliding glass window.

Since he’s actively ill right now, he’s making several trips an hour.

It’s fucking bizarre and it’s bugging the fuck out of me.

Yes, please, blow your nose in the public space so that everyone can partake of your effluvium.

I guess it’s part of the general lack of concern that everybody has for anybody else anymore. And he’s a Democrat, so I can’t blame his politics. He’s just an inconsiderate, self-centered POS.

My boss sneezes like a cartoon character. I can’t decide if he does it on purpose or if it’s just the way he sneezes. It’s incredibly forceful and I envision his lips flapping like…

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Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com