Oh boy! There are so many fun options, let’s see, you have:
“ew”, “excuse you”, “woah nelly that was a loud one”, “there’s old faithful”, “yo cover your mouth please!”, “DUDE IT”S ALL OVER MY SHIRT!”, “aw that was so cute ☺️”!
And many more! How creative can you be? There are some funny people who are witty out there in the world, I can feel it! Let’s see what you’ve got; that is, if you’re up to the challenge?
Unsure which thing to say when you’re not sure what the response will be or maybe when you don’t have time/focus to think of something?
If you are a member of polite society, then you have access to the universal response that is acceptable to all people, which is, as you already know: “bless you!”.
Don’t forget to bless people, some say their soul might be leaving their body when they sneeze; if you don’t believe in that then well, why not just do it to be nice? People like to be #blessed (I’m not basic, I’m using it in irony, c’mon, it’s funny, ha! [See what I did there? Even if you didn’t find that funny, you read the word “ha”, and still laughed in your head.
In fact, you have read two “ha’s” now, fool you once shame on me, fool you twice shame on you, but fool you thrice? Hm does that go back to me? Well, let’s make it even then– “Ha”. There we go, a nice even number. But why stop there? Four is a good number but my favorite number is five, forreal, so “ha!”. Think this is funny yet? Hmmm maybe we need a longer one? “hahahahahahahahahaha” ah that felt nice, I love to laugh, don’t you? Here, I’ll mix it up for you, “HEHEHEHEHE!”. Woah are you laughing that hard, nice I love it, your laugh is so beautiful~
Though I have a question, if I may ask. How do you read in your head? Everyone reads differently. Some people read in their own voice, some produce images, some imagine new voices, if you know them- maybe you think in their voice? Are you laughing in your head, or is it me? Are we laughing together?
Anyway I digress.. “haha!”. Sorry, couldn’t help myself– when I find something funny I like to indulge. I think you like laughing too so I’m always trying to make you laugh, I can’t hit everyone but I will hit a few {the cool ones… just kidding, you’re all cool 👉😎👉}] (Did you think I would forget to close my brackets after a few paragraphs? Think again!)
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed and had some laughs on the little unexpected detour here, but if not, well congratulations! 🎊 🎉 Because you have no sense of humor, you must be dead inside! I guess you sneezed and nobody blessed you? See how many people it affects every day? It could even be us or our loved ones and we didn’t even know it! Remember to start blessing people today! /s (<- just in case anybody needs it, see how nice I am? /s)
But really though, it couldn’t hurt to be nice to people and at the same time let them know that you’re polite. People like polite people and are usually nicer to them. As they should be! I think everyone agrees that we should be nicer to polite people because they can’t let them out-nice us!– Ok maybe we can have other/better reasons for being polite to people and that’s just my reason, but it’s a good reason (there are multiple actually) too!
I want to out-nice people because I want to find people who will out-nice me! I love meeting nice people, and this is how I find them! (Also, out-nice-ing someone is such a wholesome and fun game! [I love games] Don’t hate on me out-nice-ing you, have some fun and play with me!) These are the people I would like to most be friends with, but here’s the thing..
Some people are reserved in giving out their niceness to others, and that’s fine, not everyone deserves someone’s niceness. All of these people are smart to do that, they’re not nice, till you’re nice– a “show me your cards and I’ll show you mine” type of folks. The smartest of people, hold their cards and only show you one at a time. This is smart because people aren’t cards, they have an inside and an outside and their outside can differ from their inside if you know what I’m saying.
So “politing” can also do another thing besides showing you what type of person someone is– it can also give you a gauge of your closeness to someone potentially. You will have to often take a keen eye as to how they demonstrate politeness to you and decide whether the person is being nice for the first reason I said earlier (seeing who is a genuinely nice person). It’s always lovely to see someone opening up to you, isn’t making friends fun?
As Yeats said, “There are no strangers here; only friends you’ve never met!” except he was able to contain his excitement with a refine poise and end that thought with a “.”.
Being polite to people is one of the nicest things that you can do for someone, and once you do something for someone, they often want to return the favor (because all people are nice! You may run into someone rude/mean but usually those words stem from somewhere else– maybe they’re newly single, maybe there’s a rock in their shoe.. there are reasons the Snickers company’s most popular commercial run was “you’re not you when you’re hungry” [and let me tell you, everyone has times where they didn’t realize how hungry they were]. Anybody know the other ones? I’d be interested to know..
but my point is, these are nice people being affected by something else– please don’t take it personally [Please also consider not throwing fuel onto the fire unless you really want to go down that road {sometimes you need to}. Maybe instead of choosing to make someone’s day worse, you could help make it better? What would you want? Just a thought..])
If someone isn’t nice to you, they’re at least nice to their mother [I would hope], moms deserve it for doing the work to bring us into a world of infinite possibilities!~ (Where I can have the pleasure of showing you this. Did you click on it? Nice! Thanks for checking it out, pretty funny right?)!
So I got super distracted right there, but that ending was worth it, at least for me 😉
I was saying, people often want to do nice things for people who do nice things for them. People are nice in certain ways too, maybe you’ll get a discount on some sort, maybe they’ll do you a (perhaps unexpected) favor, maybe they’ll cut you some slack/work with you/afford you certain liberties.; the possibilities are only limited to how nice you are/how much they like you. Everyone benefits in this though (as long as everyone is genuine in their intention of course, and not using it for selfish reasons)– you’re both nice to each other, you both do things for each other, and you both take joy in both of those things, that’s a happiness to the fourth degree!
And oh boy, does happiness feel good at the fourth degree!
Let me give you a little mental tickle right quick (don’t worry I washed my pinky toe with some coconut bodywash, so it’s baby butt soft for you <3). If happiness to the forth degree feels good, how good do you think happiness to the fifth degree feels? If you don’t know, you’ll just have to find out!
And that’s about all I’ve got for you tonight folks, thanks for lending me your eyeballs and have some fun with your noggin’. I hope you had fun reading this or got something out of it that will serve you well!
Pro tip: If someone sneezes more than once, I usually say– “bless you”, “bless you twice”, “bless you thrice”, “bless you quadrice”, etc.. I find it fun, you may find it fun too, plus words lose their meaning if you say them over and over again, keep it fresh yo!
All the best,
FCP 🙃
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