Boy, I sure do. There are times when you can’t of course (“Do you, Rick, take this woman…”) but when I’m alone and my nose feels a little clogged there’s nothing I like better than jamming a finger up there and pulling out a big booger. It feels so relieving. There’s a sense of accomplishment.
So let’s find out what Dopers feel about schnozz-picking.
Do you pick your nose?
Do you have a particular place you like to go proboscis burrowing, such as the bathroom? Or do you just do it whenever you’re alone?
Which finger do you use? I always seem to use my left index finger, which I am sure would come as a relief to anyone who’s ever shaken my hand.
Do you like to roll your boogers up and flick them, deposit them on the undersides of furniture, or do you wipe them on tissue paper? (If you eat them, you need not answer this.)
On the other hand, I have been known to conceal myself behind a large tree trunk and leap out at unsuspecting passers-by. I wrestle them to the ground and tie them up with string and elastic bands.
Then I do my worst, using the little finger of my right hand.
It gets boring around here in the long winter nights.
[slight hijack for important lyrics]*
If I was your body, would you still wear clothes?
If I was a booger, would you blow your nose?
Would you keep it? Would you eat it?
I’m just tryin to give myself a reason, for being around.*
I seem to do it in the car driving, which is probably one of the worst places to do it.
I seem to notice that most other people enjoy doing it in the bathroom stalls though, as evidenced by the gallery that has been flicked onto the stall walls.
roll and flick, or just flick (if im in the house, it will end up in the bottom of the bird cage, or in a plant.)
i used to desert race motorcycles, and let me tell you, after about 80 miles in the dust of 400 other riders, you would have some MONSTERS! they were real dry and easy to extract, and when you threw em away, you would hear em hit the ground!
I am a champion nose picker. As such, I do it wherever the mood grabs me. With whichever finger has the best-shaped fingernail at the time to do the job. Like Guin, I cannot BEAR to have anything in my nose.
Oh, and they go into tissues. When I’m not flicking them in other Dopers’ beers when they leave to go to the bathroom.
1)yes
2)wherever
3)whichever is best angled to get them. Some on top might even merit the thumb.
4)flick. I have a balcony. So they go off intot he world
But you know what’s most satisfying to me? When I can feel a nice hard one that’s a little loose. When I breathe in and out I can feel it move. Then I breathe in deeply and let it rip and that sucker comes flying out of there. Whoo-ee I like that.
Here’s maybe a #5 for all those mothers out there. Have you picked your babies nose? I was quite shocked to see my sister doing that. But she was right, it had to be done.
Now Cranky Jr is more coordinated, and he’s a chip off the old block. He’s at that age where he loves picking his nose. All the time. They say if you call attention to it by scolding, they do it more, so I mostly ignore it. When he gets a big one on his finger though, and I’m worried he is going to eat it or put it on something, I quickly grab for it. Usually bare-handed. This also completely freaks out Mr. Cranky. But what are you gonna do? It’s in the mommy handbook.
Oh yeah. In fact Just before I read this post I had a dry one that irratated me enough to go for a dig. I don’t do it often though.
Normally I don’t care about this sort of thing but Last week I nearly puked when I spotted My Wife’s best friend with her pinky finger shoved so far up her nose it was stabbing her brain.
EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!
