# Do you pick your nose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580 "2012-01-06T02:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/41 "2012-01-09T12:17:31Z")
I’m curious, how do those who say that they never pick their nose get rid of encrustments in their nasal passages ? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/42 "2012-01-09T12:34:01Z")
> [@manila](#): > > As an aside I have often seen in certain cultures ( including western “icons”) people cultivating an extended pinkie fingernail. > > Its long since I found out that this wasn’t some sort of obscure fashion statement but rather a tool for fishing bits of detritus like eye, ear and nose boogers! > > eek! I thought that was a [“coke nail”](https://www.google.com/search?q=coke+nail&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) for snorting cocaine. > [@chacoguy](#): > > God has designed us so that one can stick fingers into Mouths, Noses, Assholes and Vaginas, not so, Ears and Penises. _looks at Foley catheter diameter…looks at pinky_ Wanna bet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/43 "2012-01-09T15:27:13Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > None that Mrs. Post approve… Almost makes one wonder how she landed Mr Post, but that’s a visual for another day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/44 "2012-01-09T16:08:21Z")
well, yeah…but I use Q-tips. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/45 "2012-01-10T02:44:41Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > I categorically believe that everyone who so far said they wash their hands after picking their nose… it’s just that… I think fist-bump might be better than hand-shake. Well, that is all. Funny thing, got home from work, picked my nose, washed my hands, and fed the cats. In that order. It only makes sense. I’m not sure why it is difficult to believe that someone would actually do this. I use a neti pot before I go to bed and I wash that right after I use it too. I’m not a germaphobe (as is obvious by looking around my house) but, um, bodily passages are personal space and I don’t share them with others uninvited. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/46 "2012-01-10T03:14:51Z")
You can’t imagine instances of people being out n about and have no access to bathroom/hand sanitizer after stealthy sessions of emergency nose picking, eg while driving? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/47 "2012-01-10T04:09:27Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > You can’t imagine instances of people being out n about and have no access to bathroom/hand sanitizer after stealthy sessions of emergency nose picking, eg while driving? Sure I can. But you were generalizing that all of us nose-pickers don’t wash our hands. I was just rebutting that. Because I do wash my hands. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/48 "2012-01-10T04:16:00Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Sure I can. But you were generalizing that all of us nose-pickers don’t wash our hands. I was just rebutting that. Because I do wash my hands. That’s all. I did? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580/49 "2012-01-10T07:05:31Z")
> [@Amblydoper](#): > > I Have to pick my nose. My boogers can get to be 6 inches long. If I blow them out, it just makes a big, embarrassing mess! I’m often appalled by the size/length of my boogers. The “people pick their noses in their sleep” is interesting to me because upon waking is when I most notice…uh, things needing picking. (Also my ears needing a good pinky scour - these were CLEAN after my shower yesterday!) That having been said: Yes when in public or at work I go to the bathroom to pick/blow my nose with tissues and wash my hands. (ESPECIALLY since I’m in the health care field.) No brainer. At home or in the car? God forbid my husband’s nephew who bought my last car ever looks under the driver’s seat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-pick-your-nose/608580.md?page=2)