“A couple people said ‘bless you’ the first time," said classmate Aisha Dupont, doing her best to mask the disdain she increasingly felt toward Kapoor. “That’s just good manners. And I said ‘bless you’ the second time too, but I didn’t like doing it.”

“But when I heard him sneeze that third time, he was really pushing his luck,” Dupont continued, “He was totally just begging for attention at that point and I wasn’t going to waste my breath saying ‘bless you’ again. He got the point.”

At press time, Kapoor soon came down with a bad case of the sniffles, stoking further silent resentment from his classmates.