# Dunkin' Donuts scenario...would you make a stink about it?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunkin-donuts-scenario-would-you-make-a-stink-about-it/554288 "2010-09-19T15:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunkin-donuts-scenario-would-you-make-a-stink-about-it/554288/41 "2010-09-21T00:44:14Z")

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Unless he had leprosy or meth sores or something, I wouldn’t care.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunkin-donuts-scenario-would-you-make-a-stink-about-it/554288/42 "2010-09-21T01:11:51Z")

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> [@drachillix](#):
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> > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> > For the record, I’m trained in microbiology. 🙂
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> Everyone who has taken micro knows the kind of pathogenic nightmares live on almost every surface. That cup could very well have had worse stuff on it from being packed at the factory than his shower of skin cells. How about the creamer containers? Then once you add being dropped into hot coffee, not much worth worrying about is gonna survive.
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> If fresh coffee doesn’t kill it its probably gonna end up killing half the planet anyway.

I’m not concerned about the bacteria on his skin; I just don’t want anyone else’s skin flakes in my coffee. If they’re in there from floating around in the air and I don’t know about it, I’m not concerned about it. I don’t need to see someone scratching right over my cup, though - there’s a whole world of places they can scratch that _isn’t_ right over my cup.

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**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunkin-donuts-scenario-would-you-make-a-stink-about-it/554288/43 "2010-09-21T03:37:53Z")

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Scratching an itch is often one of those things that we do without thinking. I’m certain that he wasn’t aware of what he was doing. I’d mention it and ask for another cup. I don’t anticipate that he would object at all. He probably doesn’t wouldn’t be comfortable seeing someone else depositing dead skin in his own food.

It’s a cup of coffee. It costs under a nickel to make, they can afford the loss. There may be some reluctance to toss out a saucerful of Beluga caviar, but not coffee.

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