{"id":255,"date":"2007-10-26T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/only-polite.html"},"modified":"2007-10-26T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:45:27","slug":"only-polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/10\/only-polite.html","title":{"rendered":"Only polite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael the Toddler (almost 3!) has learned many lessons in his brief life so far. One of them is that when you sneeze, people say either &#8220;bless you&#8221; or &#8220;Gesundheit.&#8221; So he responds in kind, politely.<br \/>\nHe has also absorbed the lesson that something similar happens when you cough. The response to a cough is a little different, although just as dependable as what follows a sneeze.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s &#8220;Cover your mouth!&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, when Michael coughs, if no one else chimes in, he says to himself and for himself, &#8220;Cover your mouth!&#8221;<br \/>\nWhich is kind of cute.<br \/>\nToday, we were walking through the library, past tables (and tables&#8230;) of computer users. A man coughed. From his stroller, Michael piped up, quite audibly in the library quiet:<br \/>\n&#8220;Cover your mouth!&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Move along&#8230;faster, guys&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael the Toddler (almost 3!) has learned many lessons in his brief life so far. One of them is that when you sneeze, people say either &#8220;bless you&#8221; or &#8220;Gesundheit.&#8221; So he responds in kind, politely. He has also absorbed the lesson that something similar happens when you cough. 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