[What a strange way to cough. Guy completely misses that it's an indirect way of saying he's being rude. He's used to direct aggression. Back home Phil and Hope were his first exposure to passive aggression, and it's still not a language he entirely understands.]
[He's about as perceptive as someone can be when they were an involuntary hermit for most of their life. And when their immediate adoptive family is extremely direct.]
[Guy doesn't look up from his book at first. Vaguely, he remembers that there's a thing you do in the future when people cough. A manners thing. (He's wrong about this, mis-remembering that people say things when someone sneezes.)]
[He doesn't usually mind his future manners if he can help it out of a stubbornness in the face of people previously trying to force him to. Buuut illness is no joke. People die of it all the time back home.]
[It's one future people courtesy he's willing to extend. Without looking up from his book, he says:]
Blue shoe.
[Not only does he not realize it's supposed to be for sneezes, not coughs, he also doesn't realize it's supposed to be "bless you." The English implanted in his head in the last world doesn't always cover every turn of phrase and idiom.]
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[He's about as perceptive as someone can be when they were an involuntary hermit for most of their life. And when their immediate adoptive family is extremely direct.]
[Guy doesn't look up from his book at first. Vaguely, he remembers that there's a thing you do in the future when people cough. A manners thing. (He's wrong about this, mis-remembering that people say things when someone sneezes.)]
[He doesn't usually mind his future manners if he can help it out of a stubbornness in the face of people previously trying to force him to. Buuut illness is no joke. People die of it all the time back home.]
[It's one future people courtesy he's willing to extend. Without looking up from his book, he says:]
Blue shoe.
[Not only does he not realize it's supposed to be for sneezes, not coughs, he also doesn't realize it's supposed to be "bless you." The English implanted in his head in the last world doesn't always cover every turn of phrase and idiom.]