“Second Grade Sniffles,” a sneezy short story by Lillian Browser, where a second grader named Andrew gets sick every time he enters his second grade classroom. He goes to the nurse and she says he’s fine. His parents take him to the hospital and the doctor says that he has a case of “second-itis.” Andrew has an annoying character trait. Andrew has an annoying character trait because he is mad that he either has to go back to first grade or go up to third grade. According to the text, “‘Go back to first grade’ he thought, ‘No way! I don’t want Mrs. Pork again. She’d bring me my baby pictures for show-and-tell. GROSS.’” (Browser, slide 4). The evidence supports the premise by showing that he is annoyed to go back to first grade. The evidence