Two Repressed Egotists

Currently there are three people in my office who seem to be competing to be the first to say 'bless you' whenever someone sneezes. It is unbearably annoying especially as everyone seems to have a cold at the moment, and so you can more or less guarantee that someone is going to sneeze at least once every ten minutes. This is making my office environment even more unpleasant than usual - not only am I made extremely aware that the very air that I'm forced to breathe is a toxic cloud of snot particles destined to make me ill, but I'm also prevented from concentrating on anything for any prolonged period by a barrage of shouted 'bless yous' every five minutes or so...

It's childish and misanthropic to let such things irritate me, but if you can't be childish and misanthropic on a Monday afternoon, when can you be?

And while we're on the subject of childishness, what is it exactly with this ridiculous compulsion to shout 'bless you'? While it might be overgenerous of me to suggest that ALL of my coworkers aren't genetically prevented from acting like adults, I would like to credit most of them with enough mental capacity to understand that the medieval reasoning behind saying 'bless you' after someone has sneezed has now been thoroughly disproven.

And so I can only assume its another manifestation of the general disintegration of rational and sensible human behaviour that occurs as a result of being forced to work in an office. It's the only justification for such a horrible display of childish attention-seeking. One thing is absolutely certain - the next person who deems it necessary to shout 'bless you' will need someone else to read them their last rites...