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Today was an interesting Friday with too much time spent in a team meeting.
Now those of you who attend regular team meetings
will probably face the same routine.

Boss reads through minutes, everybody sits there dozing, oh except the minute taker (me - today!) and when he reads out an action that is related to you - you simply say "Oh I haven't had a chance to do that yet!"
Boss gets red faced, minute taker carries over action ... move on.

After the meeting which finishes at lunch time I was sitting back at my desk receiving some instruction from the guy next to me.....
Now I have to set the scene for this guy.
He is FUNNY! He always manages to crack me up,
and I don't just mean I have a giggle,
I mean he often gets me laughing so hard I can't breath
and when the air is again released I make an embarrasing squealling sound ..
or worse my mouth gets locked OPEN and nothing comes out at all.
All the while I have tears rolling down my face
and I can't concentrate for a good while afterwards.
You know with the "after Giggles" like the after shocks of an earth quake. By which time the joke is over so people start thinking I'm insane.

So first he starts telling me about how he had a coughing fit on the way home in the train last night. And how the people around him must have thought he had the EBOLA virus. Now he is very animated when he tells of his train trips
- so forgive me if you don't find this amusing.

He couldn't stop coughing and spluttering as his face turned red. Then he began wheezing in between coughs, his eyes start watering and he stops breathing for a few seconds, then the tears start rolling down his face as his heavy set body rocks back and forwards with the non stop coughs. Apparently this goes on for a few minutes and people far enough away stare at him, whilst those close by start moving away from him. Nobody tries to help him, even though, according to him, the heimlich manouvre was on the cards. As he calms down he notices people still moving away from him!

I am laughing at his descriptions ... and then he starts telling me a joke about
The Midget who has escaped from prison .......
he describes it as "A MEDIUM AT LARGE"

So far I'm just laughing at his "sick" sense of humour ... then he decides he needs to finish helping me cause he needs to get back to work.
I agree and compose myself!

Then all of a sudden he stops, he grabs a tissue and holds it poised in front of his face ... I see him take a breath in and before anything could happen, I yell

"BLESS YOU!"

That was it, the sneeze he was building up for GONE!
He looks at me ... and breaks into this smile

"You, stopped it! You knew I was going to sneeze and you stopped it!"

By this time I'm laughing so hard I can't breath,
he looks at me and starts laughing too.
"You bitch, " he says fondly laughing harder.
"You took my sneeze away!"
This makes me laugh more, and I get that squeaky,
noise escape while I"m trying to catch my breath.

Both of us are killing ourselves laughing
while others around us are staring in wonder.

So my friends if you have someone lining themselves up
for a sneeze and you want to see something funny.
Say BLESS YOU really loudly or whatever you normally say when someone
has sneezed and see if it upsets
their concentration, and scares the SNEEZE AWAY.

Maybe I was just working too hard!!!
LOL But it certainly tickled my fancy for the afternoon.