Sneezing

If you just sneezed, something was probably irritating or tickling the inside of your nose. Sneezing, also called sternutation, is your body's way of removing an irritation from your nose.
When the inside of your nose gets a tickle, a message is sent to a special part of your brain called the sneeze center.

The sneeze center then sends a message to all the muscles that have to work together to create the amazingly complicated process that we call the sneeze.
Some of the muscles involved are the abdominal (belly) muscles, the chest muscles, the diaphragm (the large muscle beneath your lungs that makes you breathe), the muscles that control your vocal cords, and muscles in the back of your throat. Don't forget the eyelid muscles! Did you know that you always close your eyes when you sneeze?

It is the job of the sneeze center to make all these muscles work together, in just the right order, to send that irritation flying out of your nose. And fly it does - sneezing can send tiny particles speeding out of your nose at up to 100 miles per hour!

What the #%#@&*?!! Now that I know this, I am fortunate enough to be sitting next to a woman whose sneezing non-stop. It's a cold and she's here huffing and puffing. "Oh I feel like crap. Blah, blah, blah..." She sounds terrible and I don't want to get sick over here.

One thing I can't stand is someone whose sick coming to work to whine about it. It's obvious, dumbass, so go home. No one wants your germs. Certainly not me.

Sorry...I was talking about sneezing and how it works and when I found out about the 100 mph crap, I just went nuts.