Did that get your attention?   It sure gets mine!!!

So for the last 3 weeks I have spent my Saturday's and Sunday's at the Milton Flea Market selling my wares.   I set up my little "store" right outside the first entrance on the left when you're driving into the f.m.  

I noticed it the first weekend I was there, but it is just getting rediculous now!  Why i say WHY is it...that when anyone walks out the door and walks by my shop someone SNEEZES! 

I would say 1 in 4 people sneeze when they walk by my tables.   A lot of times it is a multiple sneeze.  achoo.  Achoo.  ACHOO. 

I have gotten really good at my God Bless You's.  = )  And when a simple God Bless You gets old, I sometimes mix it up a bit with a  Gesundheit, which means "good health" in German. 

This has peaked my interest so much that I wanted to look further into this blessing of sneezes to find out what else I could do to mix up my blesshoo's.

From Wikipedia:

A common Arabic expression, said upon hearing a sneeze, is رحمك اﷲ raḥimuk allah meaning "May God have mercy on you" In turn the person who sneezed may respond with الحمد لله alḥamdu lillah which means "Praise be to God". However, neither of these expressions is traditionally used by Christian Arabs. Another common saying is صح" which means "Health".

In Albanian, one would say "Shëndet" (Health) which means one wishes the person sneezing good health. The reply would be "Faleminderit" (Thank you) or "Shëndet paç" (Health for you too).

In Chinese one would say nothing but people believe that a sneeze means that someone is talking about them behind their backs or missing them.

Some others!!!!!!::::::

Czech - "Na zdravi" = "to health"

Denmark - "prosit" = as well, but it is seen as a much more obligatory response.

Estonian - "terviseks" = "to health

Finnish - "Terveydeksi" = 'to health"

French - "a vos souhaits" (Ah-voh-soo-eh) = "to your wishes" for the first sneeze, for the 2nd sneeze - "A vos amours" = "to your loves" if a person sneezes a 3rd time it is customary to respond "Et que les votres durent toujours" = "and let yours last forever"

Greek - "greitses" = literally meaning "healths"

Hebrew- "la-bree-oot" - to health

Irish - "dia leat" - "God be with you"

Japanese - the person sneezing says " shitsurei Shimashita" = means excuse me

So these are just a few of the ways to say "God bless you"

Now lets look some of the possible reasons why these people are actually SNEEZING!

I thought it was because of the dust all in that old flea market.  Then when they actually got outside, there bodies were like.  HACHOO!  (thank God I'm out of all that dust)

Another fella said that when you are in dark places, then you get in direct bright sunlight, it makes you sneeze.   (makes more sense than my theory)

Just wondering.  What do you think?!